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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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Tumbling through tertiary education: an investigation of the use of Tumblr within a child development course
Cat Pausé,Elizabeth M. McCarroll +1 more
TL;DR: E-learning emphasizes collaborative learning through the use of Web 2.0 tools as discussed by the authors, which advocate open collaboration, interactive technology, and personalized learning that promotes ex ectiveness and personalization.
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The Correlation between Internet Literacy and Passive Vocabulary Size
Riza Weganofa,Rizky Lutviana +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the correlation between students' internet literacy and their passive vocabulary size was investigated and it was concluded that there are other factors which affect students' passive vocabulary, and therefore, there is no correlation between student's internet literacy or passive vocabulary.
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Digital Communication: Overcoming Digital Teaching and Learning Barriers During the COVID-19 Lockdown
TL;DR: This chapter focuses on how teaching practices have been adapted to digital pedagogy and barriers play in successful teaching on digital platforms and how basic education maintains a digital teaching presence post-COVID-19 lockdown.
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#anatomymcq—A pilot study on using the Twitter survey tool as a formative assessment strategy
TL;DR: The integrated data highlight the potential of such a tool while identifying its strengths and weaknesses and was able to provide an interactive tool to engage students outside the formal teaching hours while facilitating student learning and engagement.
A Preliminary Summative Assessment of the HigherEd 2.0 Program - Using Social Media in Engineering Education
TL;DR: The HigherEd 2.0 (HED2.0) program as discussed by the authors has focused on the use of blogs, video technologies (including podcasts), and student-generated content as powerful and productive pedagogical tools.
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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.