Microblogs in Higher Education - A chance to facilitate informal and process-oriented learning?

Computers and Education

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 92-100

  Ebner, Martin ^a   Lienhardt, Conrad ^b   Rohs, Matthias ^c   Meyer, Iris ^d  

^a Computer and Information Services Social Learning ^*  (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES UPPER AUSTRIA   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

e Learning; Higher Education; Informal learning; Microblogging; Process oriented learning; Twitter; Web 2.0

Indexed keywords

HIGHER EDUCATION; INFORMAL LEARNING; PROCESS-ORIENTED; PROCESS-ORIENTED LEARNING; WEB 2.0;

E-LEARNING; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); WORLD WIDE WEB;

TEACHING;

EID: 77949873466     PISSN: 03601315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compedu.2009.12.006     Document Type: Article

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