Assessing Patron Learning from an Online Library Tutorial

Community and Junior College Libraries

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 121-138

  Blummer, Barbara ^a  

^a Center for Computing Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Online learning; Program assessment; Web based tutorial

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649922830     PISSN: 02763915     EISSN: 15452522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/02763910802139397     Document Type: Article

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