WebCT role-playing: Immediacy versus e-mediacy in learning environments

Learning Environments Research

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 183-201

  O'Connor, Sue ^a   Ross, Anne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

distance learning; e Mediated learning environments; learning outcomes; role play; synchroneity; WebCT

Indexed keywords

EID: 4344567139     PISSN: 13871579     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:LERI.0000037199.30538.89     Document Type: Article

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