Evaluating electronic textbooks: A methodology

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2163, Issue , 2001, Pages 1-12

  Wilson, Ruth ^a   Landoni, Monica ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING; TEXTBOOKS;

BEST PRACTICE GUIDELINES; ELECTRONIC BOOKS; ELECTRONIC TEXTBOOKS; EVALUATION MODELING; GENERAL METHODOLOGIES; WEB BOOK;

DIGITAL LIBRARIES;

EID: 84931838503     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-44796-2_1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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