UK Health-care professionals' experience of on-line learning techniques: A systematic review of qualitative data

Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 235-241

  Carroll, Christopher ^a   Booth, Andrew ^a   Papaioannou, Diana ^a   Sutton, Anthea ^a   Wong, Ruth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computer assisted instruction; Continuing; Education; Internet; Knowledge synthesis; Learning; Medical; Systematic reviews

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO COMPUTERS; CONTINUING EDUCATION; EDUCATION; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; METHODOLOGY; ONLINE SYSTEM; TEACHING; UNITED KINGDOM;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; ATTITUDE TO COMPUTERS; COMPUTER-ASSISTED INSTRUCTION; EDUCATION, CONTINUING; EDUCATION, DISTANCE; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH PERSONNEL; ONLINE SYSTEMS;

EID: 74949089178     PISSN: 08941912     EISSN: 1554558X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/chp.20041     Document Type: Article

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