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Ellen
Kinsel
Masters of Distance Education Programme, Athabasca University – Canada's Open University
Merv
Roy
Masters of Distance Education Programme, Athabasca University – Canada's Open University
Harley
Waldman
Masters of Distance Education Programme, Athabasca University – Canada's Open University
Donna M. M.
Woloschuk
Masters of Distance Education Programme, Athabasca University – Canada's Open University
Patrick J.
Fahy
Masters of Distance Education Programme, Athabasca University – Canada's Open University
A note of the journal International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning
Volume 3, Number 2, October 2002, p. 1–4
Copyright (c) Ellen Kinsel, Merv Roy, Harley Waldman, Donna M. M. Woloschuk and Patrick J. Fahy, 2002
This study extends the earlier review of online chat systems (Report 6), by reviewing a further seven products that provide text-based instant messaging (IM). The functionality of these products in distance education contexts is stressed in relation to their comparative costs, complexity, control, clarity, technical framework, and other functional options.
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