Methodologies to Determine Class Sizes for Fair Faculty Work Load in Web Courses

International Journal of Distance Education Technologies (IJDET)

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 46-59

  Zuckweiler, Kathryn M ^a   Schniederjans, Marc J ^a   Ball, Dwayne A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

class size; distance education; faculty work load; quantitative methods; Web courses

Indexed keywords

EID: 85001871730     PISSN: 15393100     EISSN: 15393119     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4018/jdet.2004040105     Document Type: Article

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