Assessment of online discussion in work-integrated learning

Campus-Wide Information Systems

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 413-423

  McNamara, Judith ^a   Brown, Catherine ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Internet; Students; Workplace learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 71949125981     PISSN: 10650741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/10650740911004822     Document Type: Article

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