Who am i and what keeps me going? profiling the distance learning student in higher education

International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 107-129

  Baxter, Jacqueline ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Distance universities; Forum moderation; Online identity; Online support; Online teaching; Student identity; Student progression; Student retention

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869458163     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14923831     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.19173/irrodl.v13i4.1283     Document Type: Article

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