Gender dependency and cultural independency of science interest in an open and distant science learning environment

International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 1-22

  Baram Tsabari, Ayelet ^a   Kaadni, Alaa ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Ask a scientist; Cross cultural; Gender; Informal science education; Middle east; Questions

Indexed keywords

EID: 69549126430     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14923831     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.19173/irrodl.v10i2.591     Document Type: Article

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