An empirically-grounded study on the effective use of social software in education

Education and Training

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 381-394

  Minocha, Shailey ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Case studies; Education; Internet; Social interaction

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349639394     PISSN: 00400912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00400910910987192     Document Type: Article

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