Assessing the relationship of student-instructor and student-student interaction to student learning and satisfaction in Web-based Online Learning Environment

Journal of Interactive Online Learning

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 102-120

  Sher, Ali ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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