Reconsidering Open and Distance Learning in the Developing World: Meeting Students' Learning Needs

Reconsidering Open and Distance Learning in the Developing World: Meeting Students' Learning Needs

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1-204

  Kember, David ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203966549     Document Type: Book

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