Bringing the Internet Home: Adult Distance Learners and Their Internet, Home, and Work Worlds

The Internet in Everyday Life

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 429-463

  Haythornthwaite, Caroline ^a   Kazmer, Michelle M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STUDENTS;

DISTANCE LEARNERS; HOME ENVIRONMENT; INTERNET BASED; LEARNING COMMUNITY; LOCAL COMMUNITY; ONLINE LEARNING COMMUNITY; PEER GROUPS; STUDENTS' SATISFACTION;

E-LEARNING;

EID: 84957618465     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470774298.ch15     Document Type: Chapter

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