Students' use of online academic resources within a course web site and its relationship with their course performance: An exploratory study

Accounting Education

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 587-600

  Perera, Luckmika ^a   Richardson, Peter ^a  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Blended learning; Online learning; Online resources; Students' examination performance; Undergraduate accounting courses

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959943717     PISSN: 09639284     EISSN: 14684489     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09639284.2010.529639     Document Type: Article

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