An activity-theoretical approach to investigate learners' factors toward e-learning systems.

The Internet and World Wide Web have provided opportunities of developing e-learning systems. The development of e-learning systems has started a revolution for instructional content delivering, learning activities, and social communication. Based on activity theory, the purpose of this research is...

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Publicado en:Computers in Human Behavior Vol. 23; no. 4; pp. 1906 - 1921
Autores principales: Liaw, Shu-Sheng, Huang, Hsiu-Mei, Chen, Gwo-Dong
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Publicado: Elsevier Science July 2007
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