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The role of social media in higher education classes (real and virtual) – A literature review
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This paper summarizes the scholarly writings as well as reviews the findings of empirical investigations on the utility and effectiveness of social media in the higher education class and discusses some limitations.About:
This article is published in Computers in Human Behavior.The article was published on 2013-09-01. It has received 792 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Social media & Social media optimization.read more
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Exploring the Impact of Social Learning Networks in M-Learning: A Case Study in a University Environment
TL;DR: From this study, there is significant evidence that students are very interested to use this SLN in a M-learning setting, indicating that SLN can be one of the promising pedagogical technologies that could contribute effectively to learning process.
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Pin it!: Maximizing the Benefits of Video Usage in a Preservice Teacher Classroom Using Pinterest
Denise Chapman,Evan Ortlieb +1 more
TL;DR: This paper explored how preservice teachers can use videos via social media to organize their ideas and enhance their understanding of content and pedagogical practices, and five primary themes were revealed that describe Preserve teachers' scholarly experiences using Pinterest: igniting digital serendipity, Pinterest critic in relation to their thinking, Organizing and nesting knowledge, Picky pinning researcher, and Expert distributor of knowledge.
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Exploring the relationship of university students’ educational variables and the degree of their use of virtual social networks
Mansour Jalali,Asgarali Bouyer +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a questionnaire was developed and validated for analyzing the relationship between the amount of time spent for using social networks and different dimensions of educational quality, and the Pearson and Spearman correlation coefficients and multiple regression were used to analyze data.
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Social Media in Higher Education: Restrained Potential
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the possibility of using social media in higher education to improve learning through student and faculty collaboration, and find that less than desirable results in the interaction of social media and higher education have been reported.
Supporting international students' transition from pathway programmes: a study of the University of Glasgow
Moira Fischbacher-Smith,Anna MacVicar,Michael McEwan,Ming Cheng,Panos Dendrinos,Josephine Adekola,Gayle Pringle Barnes,John Kerr,Margaret Milner +8 more
TL;DR: This paper reflects on issues and sets out how the research explored aspects of transition from a pathway programme to the second year of undergraduate study in the University of Glasgow’s College of Social Sciences drawing on focus group study with 80 international students.
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Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation
Jeanne Lave,Etienne Wenger +1 more
TL;DR: This work has shown that legitimate peripheral participation in communities of practice is not confined to midwives, tailors, quartermasters, butchers, non-drinking alcoholics and the like.
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Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship
danah boyd,Nicole B. Ellison +1 more
TL;DR: This publication contains reprint articles for which IEEE does not hold copyright and which are likely to be copyrighted.
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Users of the world, unite! The challenges and opportunities of Social Media
TL;DR: A classification of Social Media is provided which groups applications currently subsumed under the generalized term into more specific categories by characteristic: collaborative projects, blogs, content communities, social networking sites, virtual game worlds, and virtual social worlds.
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The Benefits of Facebook “Friends:” Social Capital and College Students’ Use of Online Social Network Sites
TL;DR: Facebook usage was found to interact with measures of psychological well-being, suggesting that it might provide greater benefits for users experiencing low self-esteem and low life satisfaction.