New Benchmarks in Higher Education: Student Engagement in Online Learning

Journal of Education for Business

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 101-109

  Robinson, Chin Choo ^a   Hullinger, Hallett ^a  

^a ORAL ROBERTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

online education; online learning; student engagement

Indexed keywords

EID: 85043765556     PISSN: 08832323     EISSN: 19403356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3200/JOEB.84.2.101-109     Document Type: Article

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