Designing the professional development of staff for teaching online: An OU (UK) case study

Distance Education

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 119-134

  Macdonald, Janet ^a   Poniatowska, Barbara ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Activity design; Online learning and teaching; Professional development

Indexed keywords

EID: 79956220477     PISSN: 01587919     EISSN: 14750198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01587919.2011.565481     Document Type: Article

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