Assessing the quality of distance education programs: The faculty's perspective

Journal of Computing in Higher Education

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 71-86

  Bennett, John F ^a   Bennett, Linda B ^b  

^a Stephens College   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

benchmarks; distance education; evaluation; quality

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957940466     PISSN: 10421726     EISSN: 18671233     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02940966     Document Type: Article

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