A profile of today’s distance learners: An investigation of demographic and individual difference variables of distance and non-distance learners

Journal of Marketing for Higher Education

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 1-16

  Latanich, Gary ^a   Nonis, Sarath A ^a   Hudson, Gail I ^a  

^a ARKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Compressed video; Distance learners; Market segmentation; Non distance learners

Indexed keywords

EID: 84977192608     PISSN: 08841241     EISSN: 15407144     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J050v11n03_01     Document Type: Article

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