Determining factors of the use of e-learning environments by university teachers

Computers and Education

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 142-154

  Mahdizadeh, Hossein ^a,b   Biemans, Harm ^a   Mulder, Martin ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b ILAM UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Computer mediated communication; Cooperative collaborative learning; Distance education and telelearning; Media in education; Multimedia hypermedia systems

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; STUDENTS;

COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION; COOPERATIVE/COLLABORATIVE LEARNING; MULTIMEDIA/HYPERMEDIA SYSTEMS;

E-LEARNING;

EID: 43549083476     PISSN: 03601315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compedu.2007.04.004     Document Type: Article

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