Assessing academic performance between traditional and distance education course formats

Educational Technology and Society

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 322-330

  Urtel, Mark G ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic indicators; DFW rates; Distance education; Freshmen performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 54149099565     PISSN: 11763647     EISSN: 14364522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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