Curriculum at forty below: A phenomenological inquiry of an educator/explorer's experience with adventure learning in the Arctic

Distance Education

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 253-267

  Miller, Charles ^a   Veletsianos, George ^a   Doering, Aaron ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adventure learning; Experiential learning; Hybrid online distance education; Inquiry based learning; Phenomenological inquiry

Indexed keywords

EID: 52949103242     PISSN: 01587919     EISSN: 14750198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01587910802395789     Document Type: Article

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