Adoption of mobile social networking sites for learning?

Online Information Review

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 762-778

  Wong, Choy Har ^a   Tan, Garry Wei Han ^b   Loke, Siew Phaik ^c   Ooi, Keng Boon ^d  

^a WAWASAN OPEN UNIVERSITY   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITI TUNKU ABDUL RAHMAN   (Malaysia)

^c UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MARA   (Malaysia)

^d UCSI UNIVERSITY   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Convenience; Copyright clearance (CC); Effort expectancy (EE); Learning compatibility (LC); Mobile social networking sites (mSNS); Mobility; Partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS SEM); Performance expectancy (PE); Reachability

Indexed keywords

CARRIER MOBILITY; COPYRIGHTS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS;

CONVENIENCE; COPYRIGHT CLEARANCE; EFFORT EXPECTANCY (EE); LEARNING COMPATIBILITY (LC); PERFORMANCE EXPECTANCY (PE); REACHABILITY; SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84944319960     PISSN: 14684527     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/OIR-05-2015-0152     Document Type: Article

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