Understanding social learning relations of international students in a large classroom using social network analysis

Higher Education

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 489-504

  Rienties, Bart ^a   Héliot, YingFei ^a   Jindal Snape, Divya ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Focus group; Friendship networks; Internationalisation; Learning networks; Mixed method; Pre and post testing; Social network analysis; Team learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886087606     PISSN: 00181560     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10734-013-9617-9     Document Type: Article

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