Promoting retention and successful completion on masters courses in education: A study comparing e‐tuition using asynchronous conferencing software with face‐to‐face tuition

Open Learning

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 87-96

  Knight, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM NINGBO CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

E learning; Pass rates; Retention

Indexed keywords

EID: 34250613764     PISSN: 02680513     EISSN: 14699958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02680510601100184     Document Type: Article

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