Educational use of social networking technology in higher education

Teaching in Higher Education

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 703-714

  Hung, Hsiu Ting ^a   Yuen, Steve Chi Yin ^b  

^a NATIONAL KAOHSIUNG UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

Author keywords

Classroom community; Community of practice; Sense of classroom community; Social media; Social networking

Indexed keywords

EID: 77958574613     PISSN: 13562517     EISSN: 14701294     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13562517.2010.507307     Document Type: Article

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