Designing web-based training courses to maximize learning

Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning: Best Practices and Principles for Instructors

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1-19

  Sitzmann, Traci ^a   Ely, Katherine ^b   Wisher, Robert ^c  

^a Advanced Distributed Learning Co Laboratory   (United States)

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ARMED FORCES INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

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EID: 84900111996     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-753-9.ch001     Document Type: Chapter

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