Affordances of Facebook for learning

International Journal of Continuing Engineering Education and Life-Long Learning

Volumn 19, Issue 2-3, 2009, Pages 247-255

  Idris, Yazid ^a   Wang, Qiyun ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Facebook; Pedagogical affordances; Social affordances; Technological affordances; Web 2.0

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

AFFORDANCES; FACEBOOK; MULTIMEDIA MATERIALS; SOCIAL INTERACTIONS; STUDENTS PARTICIPATION; TEACHING AND LEARNING; TECHNOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE; WEB 2.0;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 67649238296     PISSN: 15604624     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJCEELL.2009.025031     Document Type: Article

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