Designing, managing and assessing a Web 2.0 learning community to enhance inquiry based learning

International Journal of Web Based Communities

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 164-182

  Secundo, Giustina ^a   Grippa, Francesca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Inquiry learning; LD; Learning dashboard; SNA; Social network analysis; WBLC; Web 2.0 technologies; Web based learning community

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION; EDUCATION COMPUTING; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); SOCIAL SCIENCES COMPUTING;

INQUIRY LEARNING; LEARNING DASHBOARD; WBLC; WEB 2.0 TECHNOLOGIES; WEB-BASED LEARNING COMMUNITIES;

E-LEARNING;

EID: 78651577200     PISSN: 14778394     EISSN: 17418216     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJWBC.2010.032233     Document Type: Article

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