The Effects of Social Networking Sites in Distance Learning on Learners’ Academic Achievements

Büşra Özmen; Bünyamin Atıcı

doi:10.2478/eurodl-2014-0019

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The Effects of Social Networking Sites in Distance Learning on Learners’ Academic Achievements

European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning

Volume 17 (2014): Issue 2 (December 2014)

By: Büşra Özmen and Bünyamin Atıcı

Open Access

|Mar 2015

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