A multi-analytical approach to predict the Facebook usage in higher education

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 55, Issue , 2016, Pages 340-353

  Sharma, Sujeet Kumar ^a   Joshi, Ankita ^b   Sharma, Himanshu ^c  

^a SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY   (Oman)

^b MIDDLE EAST COLLEGE   (Oman)

^c Ministry of Manpower   (Oman)

Author keywords

Facebook; Higher education; Neural network; Oman; Social media; Structural equation modeling

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; EDUCATION COMPUTING; NEURAL NETWORKS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); STUDENTS;

FACEBOOK; HIGHER EDUCATION; OMAN; SOCIAL MEDIA; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING;

EDUCATION;

EID: 84942772431     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2015.09.020     Document Type: Article

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