Wikibooks in higher education: Empowerment through online distributed collaboration

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1913-1928

  Ravid, Gilad ^a   Kalman, Yoram M ^b   Rafaeli, Sheizaf ^b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Computer mediated communication; E book; Education; Empowerment; Wiki

Indexed keywords

CHARGE DISTRIBUTION; COBALT; COBALT COMPOUNDS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; EDUCATION; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; STUDENTS; TECHNOLOGY; TEXTBOOKS;

(OTDR) TECHNOLOGY; (SPM) CLASSES; APPLIED (CO); CASE STUDIES; DISTRIBUTED COLLABORATION; ELSEVIER (CO); GRADUATE STUDENTS; HIGHER EDUCATION (HE); ONLINE TECHNOLOGY; UNDERGRADUATE (UG);

ONLINE SYSTEMS;

EID: 45649083090     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2008.02.010     Document Type: Article

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