Enhancing flexible business training: Learners and enterprises

Industrial and Commercial Training

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 84-88

  Smith, Peter J ^a  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Learning styles; Self managed learning; Training; Training techniques

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986146364     PISSN: 00197858     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00197850110390862     Document Type: Article

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