Toward a learner-centered system for adult learning

Campus-Wide Information Systems

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 2-13

  Hermans, Henry ^a   Kalz, Marco ^a   Koper, Rob ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY OF THE NETHERLANDS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adult learning; E learning; Integration; Learning networks; PLE; Social networks; VLE

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890384868     PISSN: 10650741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/CWIS-07-2013-0029     Document Type: Article

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