Enhancing online climate change education: Distance and conventional university collaboration for a Master's curriculum

International Journal of Innovation and Sustainable Development

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 78-89

  Abbott, Dina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DERBY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Collaboration; Conventional universities; Distance learning universities; Master's curriculum in climate change

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859417603     PISSN: 17408822     EISSN: 17408830     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJISD.2012.046055     Document Type: Article

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