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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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Ser o no ser amigos de los profesores en redes sociales: Las perspectivas de los estudiantes universitarios
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the percepciones of estudiantes universitarios sobre the interaccion with their profesores in redes sociales (RRSS).
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The importance of the use of social media funcionality by universities
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the issue of the use of social media by universities and identify key media functionalities that are important from the point of view of the student, and assess the degree of use of Social Media by the universities under study.
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Facebook Use in Malaysian Higher Education Classroom
TL;DR: Lee et al. as mentioned in this paper have shown that social media technology plays a role in facilitating teaching and learning in higher education, and there is an increased interest of educators for using social media as a technology-enhanced learning environment.
Let’s collaborate: exploring Library and Information Science lecturers’ and students’ experience of social media as a collaboration tool through phenomenography
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored variations in the ways lecturers and students experience social media as a collaboration tool at one Indonesian university and found that lecturers' experience of the Facebook group, six categories were revealed: Substituting learning management system; Sharing information; Staying connected; Streamlining lecturers teamwork; Lacking students participation; and Finding uninformed students.
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Leveraging Knowledge Management to Promote Higher Education Programs Using Paid Social Media.
TL;DR: This research examines the results of Facebook ads campaigns promoting higher institutions’ teaching programs using the data envelopment analysis technique to assess their efficiency and shows that investments on social paid advertising are an effective way to promote higher education centers.
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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.