An empirical analysis on how learners interact in wiki in a graduate level online course

Interactive Learning Environments

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 233-244

  Huang, Wen Hao David ^a   Nakazawa, Kazuaki ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b YUAN ZE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Case study; Mixed method; Online interaction; Online learning; Web 2.0; Wiki

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955376614     PISSN: 10494820     EISSN: 17445191     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10494820.2010.500520     Document Type: Article

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