An exploratory case study of a Lebanese e-learning partnership model

World Review of Science, Technology and Sustainable Development

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 137-151

  Feghali, Tony ^a   Martin, Marc ^b   Sahyoun, Najib ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

^b KIMEP UNIVERSITY   (Kazakhstan)

Author keywords

development; distance education; e learning model

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951535935     PISSN: 17412242     EISSN: 17412234     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/WRSTSD.2006.009319     Document Type: Article

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