Online Education in the USA: Overview of a Modern Avenue for Education Delivery

Industry and Higher Education

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 365-374

  Lancaster, Sean ^a   Yen, David C ^a   Wang, Jyun Cheng ^b  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

continuing education; distance learning; e learning; online education; Web based education

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857553675     PISSN: 09504222     EISSN: 20436858     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5367/000000003773007292     Document Type: Article

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