Role of social presence and cognitive absorption in online learning environments

Distance Education

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 5-28

  Leong, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive absorption; Interest; Online student satisfaction; Social presence

Indexed keywords

EID: 79956227120     PISSN: 01587919     EISSN: 14750198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01587919.2011.565495     Document Type: Article

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