Investigating a new education frontier: Instructor communication behavior in cd-rom texts—do traditionally positive behaviors translate into this new environment?

Communication Quarterly

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 19-38

  Houser, Marian L ^a   Cowan, Renee L ^b   West, Daniel A ^c  

^a TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cd rom textbooks; Credibility; Humor; Instructor behaviors; Media naturalness hypothesis; Motivation; Nonverbal immediaccy; Student learning; Virtual instruction

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449565486     PISSN: 01463373     EISSN: 17464102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01463370600998319     Document Type: Article

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