Online PBL: A route to sustainability education?

Campus-Wide Information Systems

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 291-303

  Tomkinson, Bland ^a   Hutt, Ian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Problem based learning; Sustainability education; United Kingdom; Universities; Virtual learning environment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865395868     PISSN: 10650741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/10650741211253886     Document Type: Article

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