Using social networking sites for teaching and learning: Students' involvement in and acceptance of facebook® as a course management system

Journal of Educational Computing Research

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 155-179

  Albayrak, Duygu ^a   Yildirim, Zahide ^b  

^a BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

course management systems; Facebook involvement; instructional use of social networking sites; social networking sites; technology acceptance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930321644     PISSN: 07356331     EISSN: 15414140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0735633115571299     Document Type: Article

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