A study on the perception of students towards educational weblogs

Informatics in Education

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 233-254

  Lui, Andrew K ^a   Choy, Seung On ^a   Cheung, Yannie H Y ^b   Li, Sandy C ^c  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Blogging; Educational blogging; Feedback model; Student perception; Weblog

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750218370     PISSN: 16485831     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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