Learning in the age of global information technology: Development of a generic architecture for an advanced learning management system

Campus-Wide Information Systems

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 4-21

  Watson, Jason ^a   Ahmed, Pervaiz K ^b  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computer based learning; Computer based training; Learning processes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986156576     PISSN: 10650741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/10650740410512275     Document Type: Article

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