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Designing an E-mentoring application for facebook

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Mayur R. MehtaAuthors Info & Claims

SIGMIS-CPR '11: Proceedings of the 49th SIGMIS annual conference on Computer personnel research

Pages 58 - 61

https://doi.org/10.1145/1982143.1982175

Published: 19 May 2011 Publication History

Abstract

Facebook is the most popular social networking site, with more than 500 million active members. It has brought new opportunities for the learning and career development of students that live with technology and networked communications. This study explores the design of an e-mentoring Facebook application intended to bring together students, faculty, and Information Technology (IT) professionals as mentors and mentees.

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Aseel AAhmed KAbeer APatrick O(2023)Qudwa: STEM e-mentoring for young women in Saudi ArabiaBehaviour & Information Technology10.1080/0144929X.2023.2283196(1-28)Online publication date: 23-Nov-2023
https://doi.org/10.1080/0144929X.2023.2283196
Lee HMehta M(2015)E-Mentoring Through a Network of Practice on FacebookInternational Journal of Knowledge-Based Organizations10.4018/ijkbo.20150101035:1(34-45)Online publication date: 1-Jan-2015
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.4018/ijkbo.2015010103

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Designing an E-mentoring application for facebook
1. Applied computing
  1. Enterprise computing
    1. Business process management

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Aseel AAhmed KAbeer APatrick O(2023)Qudwa: STEM e-mentoring for young women in Saudi ArabiaBehaviour & Information Technology10.1080/0144929X.2023.2283196(1-28)Online publication date: 23-Nov-2023
https://doi.org/10.1080/0144929X.2023.2283196
Lee HMehta M(2015)E-Mentoring Through a Network of Practice on FacebookInternational Journal of Knowledge-Based Organizations10.4018/ijkbo.20150101035:1(34-45)Online publication date: 1-Jan-2015
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.4018/ijkbo.2015010103

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