The development of a facet analysis system to identify and measure the dimensions of interaction in online learning

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 58, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1569-1577

  Miksa, Shawne D ^a   Burnett, Kathleen ^b   Bonnici, Laurie J ^c   Kim, Joonmin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Drexel University

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT EXCHANGE; IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS); INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ONLINE SYSTEMS;

CHAT SESSIONS; CODING PROCEDURES; FACET ANALYSIS SYSTEMS; MIXED-METHOD STUDY;

E-LEARNING;

EID: 34548545388     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.20641     Document Type: Article

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