Wireless Internet and student-centered learning: A Partial Least-Squares model

Computers and Education

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 530-544

  Lu, Eric Y ^a   Ma, Hongyan ^b   Turner, Sandra ^c   Huang, Wayne ^c  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SALISBURY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

College students; Distributed learning environments; Partial Least Squares; Wireless Internet

Indexed keywords

LEARNING SYSTEMS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; STUDENTS;

COLLEGE STUDENTS; DISTRIBUTED LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS; WIRELESS INTERNET;

INTERNET;

EID: 34249048368     PISSN: 03601315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compedu.2005.10.009     Document Type: Article

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