Facebook as learning platform: Argumentation superhighway or dead-end street?

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 53, Issue , 2015, Pages 621-625

  Kirschner, Paul A ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY OF THE NETHERLANDS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Argumentation; Discussion; Facebook; Learning; Social Network Sites

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

ARGUMENTATION; DISCUSSION; FACEBOOK; LEARNING; SOCIAL NETWORK SITES;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84940725504     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2015.03.011     Document Type: Article

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