Dental Hygiene Students' Perceptions of Distance Learning: Do They Change Over Time?
Purpose: The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences dental hygiene program established a distant site where the didactic curriculum was broadcast via interactive video from the main campus to the distant site, supplemented with on-line learning via Blackboard. This study compared the perception...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Dental Hygiene Vol. 88; no. 1; pp. 30 - 36 |
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American Dental Hygienists Association
Feb2014
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