Students' roles in maintaining quality and in enhancing learning: Is there a tension?

Quality in Higher Education

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 115-127

  Little, Brenda ^a   Williams, Ruth ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Learning communities; Quality assurance; Quality enhancement; Student engagement; Students as consumers

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953671351     PISSN: 13538322     EISSN: 14701081     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13538322.2010.485740     Document Type: Article

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