Students' experience of synchronous learning in distributed environments

Distance Education

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 357-381

  Stewart, Anissa R ^a   Harlow, Danielle B ^a   DeBacco, Kim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

distance learning; ethnography; synchronous interaction; videoconferencing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860829523     PISSN: 01587919     EISSN: 14750198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01587919.2011.610289     Document Type: Article

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