Repositories and communities at cross-purposes: Issues in sharing and reuse of digital learning resources: Original article

Journal of Computer Assisted Learning

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 333-347

  Margaryan, A ^a   Littlejohn, A ^a  

^a GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Activity systems; Activity Theory; Learning communities; Learning object repositories (LORs); Phenomenography; Socio cultural issues in technology use

Indexed keywords

EID: 47149093185     PISSN: 02664909     EISSN: 13652729     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2729.2007.00267.x     Document Type: Article

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