The use of social media to improve social work education in remote areas

Journal of Technology in Human Services

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-12

  Kilpeläinen, Arja ^a   Päykkönen, Kirsi ^a   Sankala, Jukka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAPLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Education; Social media; Social work

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957592395     PISSN: 15228835     EISSN: 15228991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15228835.2011.572609     Document Type: Article

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