Empirical study of motivators and barriers of teacher online knowledge sharing

Educational Technology Research and Development

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 573-595

  Hew, Khe Foon ^a   Hara, Noriko ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Community of practice; Online; Teacher knowledge sharing

Indexed keywords

EID: 35348838432     PISSN: 10421629     EISSN: 15566501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11423-007-9049-2     Document Type: Article

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