Proposal for the creation of a subdiscipline: Education informatics

Teachers College Record

Volumn 112, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2523-2536

  Collins, John W ^a   Weiner, Sharon A ^b  

^a HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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