Virtual learning environments: Using, choosing and developing your VLE

Virtual Learning Environments: Using, Choosing and Developing your VLE

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1-176

  Weller, Martin ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203964347     Document Type: Book

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