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Rethinking Blended Instruction: Academic Community and Teachers’ Profiles

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Towards an Intelligent Learning Management System Under Blended Learning

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The impact of globalization and cultural pluralism from the combined perspectives of the new dimensions of e-community and e-identity (Wenger 1998; Zhou 2011) may justify innovative methodologies in the design, implementation and development of the teaching–learning process.

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    Sofia B. Dias & José A. Diniz

  2. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

    Leontios J. Hadjileontiadis

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Dias, S.B., Diniz, J.A., Hadjileontiadis, L.J. (2014). Rethinking Blended Instruction: Academic Community and Teachers’ Profiles. In: Towards an Intelligent Learning Management System Under Blended Learning. Intelligent Systems Reference Library, vol 59. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02078-5_8

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