Plasticity: The online learning environment's potential to support varied learning styles and approaches

Campus-Wide Information Systems

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 254-262

  Greener, Susan L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Learning; Learning styles; Plasticity

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956495719     PISSN: 10650741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/10650741011073798     Document Type: Article

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