College students' attitudes toward web-based forums and communities

WSEAS Transactions on Computers

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 674-679

  Liu, Eric Zhi Feng ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Community; Reliability; Validity; Web based education; Web based forum

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION; CURRICULA; DATA REDUCTION; EDUCATION; STUDENTS;

WEB-BASED EDUCATION; WEB-BASED FORUM;

WEB SERVICES;

EID: 34247392732     PISSN: 11092750     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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