Fostering enginering e-learning courses with social network services

In this paper we present integration of social network services into engineering e-learning courses. The main goal of this paper is the improvement of quality of educational process. We propose a model of application of Facebook services in e-education. The results show that students who used Facebook for educational purposes had better achievement on exam.

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