All work and no play? The design and development of a virtual social space (VSS) to support distance learning students

Proceedings - International Conference on Computers in Education, ICCE 2002

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 1117-1121

  Nunes, M B ^a   McPherson, M ^a   Firth, C ^a   Gilchrist, D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b Logica United Kingdom   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTANCE EDUCATION; EDUCATION;

DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT; GEOGRAPHICAL DISPERSIONS; IT MANAGEMENT; LEARNING COMMUNITY; PEER TO PEER; SOCIAL SPACES; TIME SCHEDULES;

STUDENTS;

EID: 60549083715     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CIE.2002.1186167     Document Type: Conference Paper

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