Knowledge sharing and educational technology acceptance in online academic communities of practice

Campus-Wide Information Systems

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 108-116

  Nistor, Nicolae ^a   Baltes, Beate ^b   Schustek, Monika ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b Walden University   (United States)

Author keywords

Communities of practice; E learning; Educational technology acceptance; Knowledge sharing; Online learning; Online mentoring

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858849879     PISSN: 10650741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/10650741211212377     Document Type: Article

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