A five dimensional model for educating the net generation

Educational Technology and Society

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 218-227

  Beyers, Ronald Noel ^a  

^a CSIR MERAKA INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Digital divide; Globalization; Knowledge society; Model of education; Net generation

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954245187     PISSN: 11763647     EISSN: 14364522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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