Nurse Education Today
Volume 31, Issue 4 , Pages 350-355 , May 2011

The effect of voluntariness on the acceptance of e-learning by nursing students

  • Boštjan Žvanut

      Affiliations

    • University of Primorska, College of Health Care Izola, Polje 42, 6310 Izola, Slovenia
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +386 56626460; fax: +386 56626480.
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  • Patrik Pucer

      Affiliations

    • University of Primorska, College of Health Care Izola, Polje 42, 6310 Izola, Slovenia
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  • Sabina Ličen

      Affiliations

    • University of Primorska, College of Health Care Izola, Polje 42, 6310 Izola, Slovenia
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  • Irena Trobec

      Affiliations

    • University of Primorska, College of Health Care Izola, Polje 42, 6310 Izola, Slovenia
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  • Nadja Plazar

      Affiliations

    • University of Primorska, College of Health Care Izola, Polje 42, 6310 Izola, Slovenia
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  • Damjan Vavpotič

      Affiliations

    • University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Computer and Information Science, Tržaška 25, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

,Accepted 17 July 2010.

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PII: S0260-6917(10)00129-2

doi: 10.1016/j.nedt.2010.07.004

Nurse Education Today
Volume 31, Issue 4 , Pages 350-355 , May 2011

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