Peer reviewed Social networks were used within graduate eLearning French university courses over a three-year period (2007-2010) in order to explore and evaluate the relative advantages and challenges for the usage of such tools in higher education. All students involved were off-campus, and they were following curricula as part of a master's degree in Knowledge Management, Learning and eLearning within the Linguistics Department at Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3 University:
http://www.univ-montp3.fr/metice/_masterprogaf/.