Students' frustrations with a web-based distance education course

First Monday

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 1999, Pages

  Hara, Noriko ^a   Kling, Rob ^a,b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Center for Social Informatics   (United States)

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EID: 5444263945     PISSN: 13960466     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5210/fm.v4i12.710     Document Type: Article

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