Collaborative e-learning course design: Impacts on instructors in the Open University of Tanzania

Australasian Journal of Educational Technology

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 232-248

  Nihuka, Kassimu A ^a   Voogt, Joke ^b  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY OF TANZANIA   (Tanzania)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

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EID: 84860516522     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14495554     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14742/ajet.871     Document Type: Article

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