Enhancing the quality of online higher education through measurement

Quality Assurance in Education

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 214-221

  Zhao, Fang ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Higher education; Learning methods; Online databases; Teaching; Technology led strategy; World Wide Web

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986163982     PISSN: 09684883     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09684880310501395     Document Type: Article

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