Educational and institutional flexibility of Australian educational software

Campus-Wide Information Systems

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 74-84

  Shurville, Simon ^a   O'Grady, Thomas ^b   Mayall, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Change management; Computer software; Distance learning; Higher education

Indexed keywords

EID: 41549125088     PISSN: 10650741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/10650740810866576     Document Type: Article

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