Computer Mediated Communication as a resource in the University

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John Corbett
Celia Duffy
Erica McAteer
Andrew Tolmie

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Discussion on the effectiveness of teaching Computer Mediated Communication (CMC) by analyzing the role of cultural context into which a portion. The authors propose a detailed evaluation of this resource to be taken into account the large medium, participants and context.

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