Impact of personalised learning styles on online delivery and assessment

Campus-Wide Information Systems

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 105-119

  Becker, Karen ^a   Kehoe, Jo ^a   Tennent, Beth ^a  

^a CENTRAL QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Communication technologies; Learning styles; Students; Worldwide web

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947271258     PISSN: 10650741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/10650740710742718     Document Type: Article

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