Students advise fortune 500 company: Designing a problem-based learning community

Business Communication Quarterly

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 21-34

  Brzovic, Kathy ^a   Matz, S Irene ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Experiential learning; Fortune 500; Group interaction; Learning communities; Problem based learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 59449085652     PISSN: 10805699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1080569908321439     Document Type: Article

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