The information commitments toward web information among medical students in Taiwan

Educational Technology and Society

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 162-172

  Liang, Jyh Chong ^a   Tsai, Chin Chung ^b  

^a CHIN MIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Gender; Information commitment; Internet; Medical studies

Indexed keywords

EID: 68949189544     PISSN: 11763647     EISSN: 14364522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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