Social networks for learning: Breaking through the walled garden of the VLE

Computational Social Networks: Tools, Perspectives and Applications

Volumn 9781447140481, Issue , 2012, Pages 417-444

  Jones, Karen ^a   Pole, Rhian ^a   Hole, Stephen ^b   Williams, James ^b  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Swansea Metropolitan University   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); SOCIAL SCIENCES COMPUTING;

BREAKINGS; DIGITAL NATIVES; E - LEARNING; LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS; LEARNING PROCESS; NETWORK TECHNOLOGIES; PUBLIC INTERNET; USE SOCIAL NETWORKS; VIRTUAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS; WEB 2.0 TOOLS;

E-LEARNING;

EID: 84949176314     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4471-4048-1_17     Document Type: Chapter

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