Cocreating learning: insights from complexity theory

The Learning Organization

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 388-403

  Desai, Darshan A ^a  

^a TOURO COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Communication technologies; Complexity theory; Learning; Learning methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954627936     PISSN: 09696474     EISSN: 1758905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09696471011059796     Document Type: Article

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