Designing internet instruction for latinos

Internet Reference Services Quarterly

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 185-199

  Mestre, Lori S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Bibliographic instruction; Cognitive style(s) or learning styles; Computer literacy; Educational technology; Equal education; Hispanic Americans; Latinos; Teaching learning process; Training methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993021732     PISSN: 10875301     EISSN: 15404749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J136v02n04_03     Document Type: Article

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