A multidimensional approach to the sustainability of e-learning

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Guglielmo Trentin

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Analysis of the key elements related to sustainability 'of a system of e-learning. We present a model that highlights the complex web of relationships between the dimensions that characterize it. E 'already' in the early stages of its planning and implementation.

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