Learners re-shaping learning landscapes: New directions for old challenges?

ASCILITE 2008 - The Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 715-723

  Owen, Hazel ^a  

^a UNITEC INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Academic writing; Blended learning; Communities of learning; Foundation programmes; Gulf region; ICTELT

Indexed keywords

BLENDED LEARNING; COLLABORATIVE COMMUNITY; COLLECTIVE LEARNING; COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES; GULF REGION; ICTELT; RESEARCH STUDIES; TERTIARY EDUCATION;

CURRICULA; STUDENTS;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84870980128     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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