learning environment research in higher education: Assessing patterns of learning and teaching

Contemporary Approaches to Research on Learning Environments: Worldviews

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 93-124

  Van Petegem, Peter ^a   Donche, Vincent ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

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DOI: 10.1142/9789812774651_0005     Document Type: Chapter

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