Towards an information sharing pedagogy: A case of using facebook in a large first year class

Informing Science

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 61-89

  Rambe, Patient ^a   Ng'ambi, Dick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Activity theory; Facebook; Information sharing; Pedagogy

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957549017     PISSN: 15214672     EISSN: 15214672     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.28945/1391     Document Type: Article

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