Encouraging interaction and status awareness in undergraduate software engineering projects: The role of social networking services

2010 IEEE Education Engineering Conference, EDUCON 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 179-184

  Charlton, Terence ^a   Devlin, Marie ^a   Marshall, Lindsay ^a   Drummond, Sarah ^b  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Collaborative work; Computer science education; Facebook; Professional communication; Programming; Social factors; Technology

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATIVE WORK; COMPUTER SCIENCE EDUCATION; FACEBOOK; PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION; PROGRAMMING; SOCIAL FACTOR;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; EDUCATION COMPUTING; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); TECHNOLOGY;

STUDENTS;

EID: 77954905444     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EDUCON.2010.5492580     Document Type: Conference Paper

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