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Technology and universities: context, cost and culture

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 December 2008

Chris Curran
Chris Curran
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Director, National Distance Education Centre, Dublin City University
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Abstract

This paper relates to the projected role of the new technologies in university teaching in the light of considerations of cost, context and culture. The author is currently engaged in a study of the successful application of the new technologies in university distance teaching, in North America and countries of the European Union.

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ReCALL , Volume 10 , Issue 1 , May 1998 , pp. 13 - 20
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Copyright © European Association for Computer Assisted Language Learning 1998

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