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Social Networks and Their Potential for Education

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Computational Collective Intelligence

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNAI,volume 9330))

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The purpose of this article is to explore whether there is a potential in using social networks among first-year undergraduates at the Faculty of Informatics and Management of the University of Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic. The authors want to discover which social networks are the most popular among these students so that the most frequently used could be implemented into teaching and learning processes.

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  1. University of Hradec Králové, Rokitanského 62, Hradec Králové, Czech Republic

    Petra Poulova & Blanka Klimova

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  1. Petra Poulova
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Correspondence to Petra Poulova .

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  1. Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

    Manuel Núñez

  2. Wroclaw University of Technology, Wroclaw, Poland

    Ngoc Thanh Nguyen

  3. Computer Science Department, Universidad Autónoma De Madrid, Madrid, Spain

    David Camacho

  4. Wroclaw University of Technology, Wroclaw, Poland

    Bogdan Trawiński

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Poulova, P., Klimova, B. (2015). Social Networks and Their Potential for Education. In: Núñez, M., Nguyen, N., Camacho, D., Trawiński, B. (eds) Computational Collective Intelligence. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9330. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24306-1_36

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