Where did distance education go wrong?

Distance Education

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 39-51

  Baggaley, Jon ^a  

^a ATHABASCA UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Appropriate technologies; Developing countries; E learning; Open and distance learning; Open courseware

Indexed keywords

EID: 45849145415     PISSN: 01587919     EISSN: 14750198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01587910802004837     Document Type: Article

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