Teachers' and students' experiences of simultaneous teaching in an international distance and on-campus master's programme in engineering

International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1-17

  Popov, Oleg ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Activity theory; Distance education; Higher education pedagogy; Qualitative research

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349386260     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14923831     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.19173/irrodl.v10i3.669     Document Type: Article

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