Blogs in higher education: Implementation and issues

TechTrends

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 95-98

  Deng, Liping ^a   Yuen, Allan H K ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b Hong Kong Association for Educational Communications and Technology (HKAECT)   (Hong Kong)

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EID: 67949120169     PISSN: 87563894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11528-009-0287-5     Document Type: Article

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