Virtual classroom participants' views for effective synchronous education process

Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 290-301

  Karaman, Selçuk ^a   Aydemir, Melike ^a   Kuçuk, Sevda ^b   Yildirim, Gürkan ^a  

^a ATATÜRK UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Distance education; Synchronous learning; Virtual classroom

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875262004     PISSN: None     EISSN: 13026488     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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