Benefits of an online discussion list in a traditional distance education course

Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2004, Pages

  Bradshaw, Julie ^a   Hinton, Leone ^a  

^a CENTRAL QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Asynchronous online discussion; Constructivist learning; Distance education; Drug use and attitudinal change; Online learning; Social presence

Indexed keywords

EID: 4644297837     PISSN: 13026488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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