Social Networking and research: an experience with Facebook

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Published: Apr 30, 2012
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17471/2499-4324/194
Keywords:
social networking, research, facebook, Educational Technology, Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL), Social Networks and Learning, Field experience column

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Simone Romagnoli
SEFoRA Lab, Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Educazione, Facoltà di Psicologia, Alma Mater Studiorum, Università di Bologna, Bologna
Patrizia Selleri
SEFoRA Lab, Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Educazione, Facoltà di Psicologia, Alma Mater Studiorum, Università di Bologna, Bologna

Abstract

Employing Social Networks as a tool for collecting data, optimizing time management and enhancing variability within the group of participants

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Vol. 20 No. 1 (2012): TD55 - Social Networks and Learning
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Column "Field experiences"

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