Research insights from a decade of campus-wide implementation of web-supported academic instruction at Tel Aviv University

International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 1-16

  Nachmias, Rafi ^a   Ram, Judith ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cost effectiveness model; Diffusion of innovation; Empirical research; Web pedagogy; Web supported academic instruction

Indexed keywords

EID: 69549106073     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14923831     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.19173/irrodl.v10i2.595     Document Type: Article

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