Does the community of inquiry framework predict outcomes in online mba courses?

Academy of Management 2007 Annual Meeting: Doing Well by Doing Good, AOM 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Arbaugh, J B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN OSHKOSH   (United States)

Author keywords

E learning; MBA; New approaches to E learning research

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY OF INQUIRY; MANAGEMENT EDUCATION; MBA; ONLINE LEARNING; ONLINE MBA; QUANTITATIVE VERIFICATION;

EDUCATION; RESEARCH;

E-LEARNING;

EID: 84858382251     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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