An empirically grounded framework to guide blogging for digital scholarship

Research in Learning Technology

Volumn 20, Issue SUPPL, 2012, Pages 176-188

  Heap, Tania ^a   Minocha, Shailey ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Academic blogging; Digital scholarship; Open scholarship; Openness; Research blogging

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878494392     PISSN: 21567069     EISSN: 21567077     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/rlt.v20i0.19195     Document Type: Conference Paper

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