Instructional design for best practice in the synchronous cyber classroom

Educational Technology and Society

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 281-294

  Hastie, Megan ^a   Chen, Nian Shing ^b   Kuo, Yen Hung ^b  

^a Brisbane School of Distance Education   (Australia)

^b NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Cyber classroom; Early childhood students; Instructional design; Online synchronous learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 44949262932     PISSN: 11763647     EISSN: 14364522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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