The educational affordances of blogs for self-directed learning

Computers and Education

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 1628-1644

  Robertson, Judy ^a  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Blogs; Computer science; Self directed learning

Indexed keywords

AFFORDANCES; BLOGGING; COMPUTER SCIENCE STUDENTS; CREATIVE PROJECTS; HIGHER ORDER; LEARNING COMMUNITY; LEARNING GOALS; METACOGNITIVES; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RE-PLANNING; SELF-DIRECTED LEARNING; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

BLOGS; COMPUTER SCIENCE; QUALITY CONTROL;

STUDENTS;

EID: 79953707630     PISSN: 03601315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compedu.2011.03.003     Document Type: Article

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