Discourse analysis of computer-mediated conferencing in World Wide Web-based continuing medical education.
INTRODUCTION: Computer-mediated conferencing (CMC) is a computer messaging system that allows users to engage in asynchronous text-based communications that are independent of time and place. It has been suggested that CMC is an effective modality for facilitating constructivist learning environment...
| Published in: | Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions Vol. 23; no. 4; pp. 229 - 239 |
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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Fall2003
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