How did they use it? The involvement of computer science students in a CMC environment created for distance learning

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Denise Whitelock
Tina Wilson

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Discussion of the involvement of computer science students in a Computer Mediated Communucation created for distance learning. The different possibilities 'use of CMC to distance education and the reasons for doing so: Learning, Motivation, Socialist.' What 'more' important for students?

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