ICT in vocational and technical schools: Teachers' instructional, managerial and personal use matters

Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 98-106

  Kuskaya Mumcu, Filiz ^a   Kocak Usluel, Yasemin ^a  

^a HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Purposes of ict usage; Teachers' ict usage; Vocational and technical education

Indexed keywords

EID: 76449097724     PISSN: None     EISSN: 13036521     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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