Trends in distance education research: A content analysis of journals 2009-2013

International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 330-363

  Bozkurt, Aras ^a   Akgun Ozbek, Ela ^a   Yilmazel, Sibel ^a   Erdogdu, Erdem ^a   Ucar, Hasan ^a   Guler, Emel ^a   Sezgin, Sezan ^a   Karadeniz, Abdulkadir ^a   Sen Ersoy, Nazife ^a   Goksel Canbek, Nil ^a   Dincer, Gokhan Deniz ^a   Ari, Suleyman ^a   Aydin, Cengiz Hakan ^a  

^a ANADOLU UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Content analysis; Distance education issues; Distance education trends; Research evaluation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84925351385     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14923831     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.19173/irrodl.v16i1.1953     Document Type: Article

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