BECOMING an "onliner": Students' perceptions of moving from traditional to virtual learning

Online Journal of Nursing Informatics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Killion, Cheryl ^a   Reilly, Janet ^b   Gallagher Lepak, Susan ^b  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN GREEN BAY   (United States)

Author keywords

Nursing students; Online learning; R.N. to B.S.N. students; Technology; Virtual learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952683650     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10899758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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