Using Web 2.0 to decolonise transcultural learning zones in higher education

Campus-Wide Information Systems

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 240-255

  Eijkman, Henk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Communication technologies; Higher education; Knowledge processes; Learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 68949107788     PISSN: 10650741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/10650740910967401     Document Type: Article

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