Flaming the faculty: Exploring root causes, consequences, and potential remedies to the problem of instructor-focused uncivil online student discourse in higher education

Cutting-Edge Technologies in Higher Education

Volumn 5, Issue , 2012, Pages 379-404

  Wildermuth, Susan ^a   Davis, Corey B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN WHITEWATER   (United States)

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EID: 84886651734     PISSN: 20449968     EISSN: 20449976     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1108/S2044-9968(2012)0000005020     Document Type: Article

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