Informal Learning through Facebook among Slovenian Pupils

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Volumn 21, Issue 41, 2013, Pages 117-126

  Erjavec, Karmen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Facebook; Informal learning; Internet; Media education; Pupils; Social capital; Social network sites

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884238378     PISSN: 11343478     EISSN: 19883293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3916/C41-2013-11     Document Type: Article

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