Distance education and academic achievement in business administration: The case of the University of Akureyri

International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Edvardsson, Ingi Runar ^a   Oskarsson, Gudmundur Kristjan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AKUREYRI   (Iceland)

Author keywords

Business administration; Distance education; Iceland; Student achievement

Indexed keywords

EID: 57349186540     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14923831     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.19173/irrodl.v9i3.542     Document Type: Article

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