Use of the webinar tool (elluminate) to support training: The effects of webinar-learning implementation from student-trainers' perspective

Journal of Interactive Online Learning

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 175-194

  Wang, Shiang Kwei ^a   Hsu, Hui Yin ^a  

^a NEW YORK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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