Adding to the mix: Students use of Facebook groups and blackboard discussion forums in higher education

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Adding to the mix: Students use of Facebook groups and blackboard discussion forums in higher education

This paper reports on a case study of the use of Facebook in learning and teaching in higher education. Facebook was used as a venue for online discussion to support the existing Learning Management System (in this case Blackboard) in the unit Internet Collaboration and Organisation as part of the I...

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Main Author:	Kent, Michael
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	2016
Online Access:	http://www.kmel-journal.org/ojs/index.php/online-publication/article/view/339 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/38190

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