The impact of student activity in a virtual learning environment on their final mark

Active Learning in Higher Education

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 177-189

  Mogus, Ana M ^a   Djurdjevic, Ivana ^a   Suvak, Nenad ^a  

^a JOSIP JURAJ STROSSMAYER UNIVERSITY OF OSIJEK   (Croatia)

Author keywords

activities; correlation; final mark; system logs; virtual learning environment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869075693     PISSN: 14697874     EISSN: 17412625     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1469787412452985     Document Type: Article

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