The Greek School Network: A paradigm of successful educational services based on the dynamics of open-source technology

IEEE Transactions on Education

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 321-330

  Kalochristianakis, Michael N ^a,b   Paraskevas, Michael ^a   Varvarigos, Emmanouel A ^a,b   Xypolitos, Nikolaos ^a  

^a Univ of Patras   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Education; Network infrastructure; Networks; Open source software; School network

Indexed keywords

EID: 37749015667     PISSN: 00189359     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TE.2007.904574     Document Type: Article

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