Learner and instructor identified success factors in distance education

Distance Education

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 231-252

  Menchaca, Michael P ^a   Bekele, Teklu Abate ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Distance education; Online learning environments; Qualitative analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 52949154249     PISSN: 01587919     EISSN: 14750198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01587910802395771     Document Type: Article

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