Adopting tools for online synchronous communication: Issues and strategies

Making the Transition to E-Learning: Strategies and Issues

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 318-334

  Murphy, Elizabeth ^a   Laferrière, Thérèse ^b  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

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EID: 84898148442     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59140-950-2.ch019     Document Type: Chapter

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