Social learning analytics

Educational Technology and Society

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 3-26

  Shum, Simon Buckingham ^a   Ferguson, Rebecca ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Discourse; Dispositions; Informal learning; Learning analytics; Social learning; Social networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873838796     PISSN: 11763647     EISSN: 14364522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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