Blending interactive videoconferencing and asynchronous learning in adult education: Towards a constructivism pedagogical approach-A case study at the University of Crete (E.DIA.M.ME.)

Handbook of Distance Learning for Real-Time and Asynchronous Information Technology Education

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 24-64

  Anastasiades, Panagiotes S ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

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DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-964-9.ch002     Document Type: Chapter

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