Use of social web technologies by international and domestic undergraduate students: Implications for internationalising learning and teaching in Australian universities

Technology, Pedagogy and Education

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 31-46

  Gray, Kathleen ^a   Chang, Shanton ^b   Kennedy, Gregor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Internationalisation; Net Generation; Social software; User created content; Web 2.0

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951517314     PISSN: 1475939X     EISSN: 17475139     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14759390903579208     Document Type: Article

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