Post-secondary students' purposes for blogging

International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Leslie, Paul ^a   Murphy, Elizabeth ^b  

^a NOVA SCOTIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE   (Canada)

^b MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

Blogging; Knowledge construction; Post secondary; Social presence; Teaching presence

Indexed keywords

EID: 57649094797     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14923831     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.19173/irrodl.v9i3.560     Document Type: Article

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