Incorporating microblogging ("tweeting") in higher education: Lessons learnt in a knowledge management course

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 51, Issue , 2015, Pages 1295-1302

  Menkhoff, Thomas ^a   Chay, Yue Wah ^b   Bengtsson, Magnus Lars ^c   Woodard, C Jason ^a   Gan, Benjamin ^a  

^a SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b SINGAPORE UNIVERSITY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES   (Singapore)

^c Science Park II   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Blended learning; Higher education; Singapore; Twitter (micro blogging)

Indexed keywords

BLOGS; EDUCATION; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); TEACHING; WEBSITES;

BLENDED LEARNING; COLLABORATIVE KNOWLEDGE CREATION; EXPLORATORY RESEARCH; HIGHER EDUCATION; MICRO BLOGGING; MICRO-BLOGGING SERVICES; SINGAPORE; SOCIAL NETWORKING APPLICATIONS;

STUDENTS;

AWARENESS; EDUCATION; EXPLORATORY RESEARCH; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERNET; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; LEARNING; SINGAPORE; SOCIAL NETWORK; STUDENT; UNIVERSITY; VIDEORECORDING;

EID: 85028200002     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2014.11.063     Document Type: Article

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