Into the academy: Preparing and mentoring international doctoral students

Educational Technology Research and Development

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 365-377

  Ku, Heng Yu ^a   Lahman, Maria K E ^a   Yeh, Hsin Te ^a   Cheng, Yi Chia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO   (United States)

^b TAMKANG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Case study; Doctoral student; Focus group; International student; Mentoring

Indexed keywords

EID: 42149098916     PISSN: 10421629     EISSN: 15566501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11423-007-9083-0     Document Type: Article

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