Building a model explaining the social nature of online learning

Educational Technology and Society

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 198-215

  Tsai, I Chun ^a   Kim, Bosung ^a   Liu, Pei Ju ^a   Goggins, Sean P ^a   Kumalasari, Christiana ^a   Laffey, James M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Online learning satisfaction; Participation; Path analysis; Sense of community; Social ability; Technology acceptance

Indexed keywords

EID: 54149108957     PISSN: 11763647     EISSN: 14364522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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