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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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Acceptability of Social Media Use in Out-of-Class Faculty-Student Engagement
TL;DR: Findings indicate that faculty members are aware of social media, but use varies, and overall, they do not view social media as an important part of out-of-class engagement, but it is viewed as more acceptable for engagement with former students.
Impact of Social Networking Websites on Students learning
Muhammad Asif,Muhammad Ibrahim +1 more
TL;DR: The authors investigated the effect of social networking on student performance those use the social websites and found that in age range between 15 to 25 mostly use social networking websites for enjoyment, 60% of male respondents used these websites for information, and some people also used social websites for social influence.
Using Twitter in higher education : what are students’ initial perceptions and experiences?
TL;DR: In this paper, an intervention in the course Instructional Strategies taught at the Faculty of Educational Sciences at Ghent University was set up to determine higher education students' expectations and experiences about the use of the micro blogging and social networking platform Twitter for educational purposes.
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Using Social Media in Creating and Implementing Educational Practices
Robyn Gandell,Inna Piven +1 more
Information-Seeking Behaviour Model of International Students’ Use of Social Media
TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a model of information-seeking behavior of international students when they are using social media and evaluated the both posts/comments with the help of netnography and literature.
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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.