'Sorting the wheat from the chaff': Investigating overload in educational discussion systems

Journal of Computer Assisted Learning

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 235-247

  Kear, K L ^a   Heap, N W ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conferencing; Dialogue; Distance; Interface; IT use; Questionnaire

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248353105     PISSN: 02664909     EISSN: 13652729     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2729.2006.00212.x     Document Type: Article

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