Social networking sites within Higher Education - Threat or opportunity?

EE 2008 - International Conference on Innovation, Good Practice and Research in Engineering Education

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Palmer, Neville ^a   Batola, Jomo ^a   Jones, Margaret ^a   Baron, Sheila ^a  

^a SOUTHAMPTON SOLENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES; HIGHER EDUCATION; HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS; HIGHER EDUCATION SYSTEM; LIFE LONG LEARNING; NETWORKING SYSTEMS; SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES; VIRTUAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS;

COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION; E-LEARNING; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; RESEARCH; STUDENTS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84872117385     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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