An investigation of distance education in North American Research Literature using co-word analysis

International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 37-60

  Ritzhaupt, Albert D ^a   Stewart, Michelle ^b   Smith, Patryce ^b   Barron, Ann E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Co word analysis; Distance education; Similarity index analysis; Themes; Trends

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952478520     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14923831     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.19173/irrodl.v11i1.763     Document Type: Article

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