Blogs as eportfolio platforms in Teacher Education: Affordances and limitations derived from student teachers' perceptions and performance on their eportfolios

Digital Education Review

Volumn , Issue 26, 2014, Pages 1-23

  Tur, Gemma ^a   Urbina, Santos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT DE LES ILLES BALEARS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Blogs; Electronic portfolios; Open eportfolios; Teacher education; Web 2.0

Indexed keywords

EID: 84923448008     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20139144     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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