Face-to-face or face-to-screen? Undergraduates' opinions and test performance in classroom vs. Online learning

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 5, Issue NOV, 2014, Pages

  Kemp, Nenagh ^a   Grieve, Rachel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Discussion forums; E learning; Face to face learning; Online learning; University

Indexed keywords

EID: 84923337520     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01278     Document Type: Article

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