Designing capacity-building in e-learning expertise: Challenges and strategies

Computers and Education

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 499-510

  Aczel, J C ^a   Peake, S R ^a   Hardy, P ^b  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES AND ARTS OF SOUTHERN SWITZERLAND   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Distance education and telelearning; ICT for development; Learning communities; Pedagogical issues

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; DATA ACQUISITION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

LEARNING COMMUNITIES; PEDAGOGICAL ISSUES; PRODUCTION CAPACITY; TELELEARNING;

E-LEARNING;

EID: 38349014392     PISSN: 03601315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compedu.2007.07.005     Document Type: Article

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