Educational blogging: A Malaysian university students' perception and experience

ASCILITE 2008 - The Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 954-963

  Song, Helena S Y ^a   Chan, Yuen May ^a  

^a MULTIMEDIA UNIVERSITY   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Educational blogging; Learning tool; Malaysia

Indexed keywords

BLOGGING; DATA AND INFORMATION; EFFECTIVE LEARNING; HIGHER EDUCATION; LEARNING TOOL; MALAYSIA; MALAYSIANS; TEACHING AND LEARNING; TECHNOLOGICAL GROWTH; UNIVERSITY STUDENTS; WEB 2.0 APPLICATIONS; WEBLOGS;

STUDENTS; TEACHING;

BLOGS;

EID: 84870996605     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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