Web 2.0 in education: A study of the explorative use of blogs with a postgraduate class

Innovations in Education and Teaching International

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 149-158

  Churchill, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Blog; E learning; Learning environments; Support of learning; Web 2.0

Indexed keywords

EID: 79956366329     PISSN: 14703297     EISSN: 14703300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14703297.2011.564009     Document Type: Article

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