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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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Soziale Wissensumgebungen
Jan M. Pawlowski,Markus Bick,René Peinl,Stefan Thalmann,Ronald Maier,Lars Hetmank,Paul Kruse,Malte Martensen,Henri Pirkkalainen +8 more
TL;DR: In this article, aktuelle Forschungstrends und -lucken aufzuzeigen und legt hierbei einen Schwerpunkt auf soziale Wissensumgebungen.
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The Role of Facebook in Enhancement of Undergraduates' Receptive Skills at a Saudi University.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated students' perceptions regarding the uses of Facebook as a well-liked forum of social media pertinent to enhancement of Receptive Skill of English, as a foreign language.
Uma Perspectiva para a Divulgação Científica em Biologia em Mídias Digitais Brasileiras
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyze a dinâmica de oferta e procura of documents in different formatos of midia digital (blogs, canais do YouTube, revistas digitais, ebooks, podcasts and audiolivros).
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Using Facebook to enhance student engagement in undergraduate sociology classes at Bangladeshi colleges
TL;DR: The authors explored and improved the success of Facebook technology in undergraduate Sociology classes to enhance students' engagement and found that Facebook is effectively used in various settings for strengthening academic achievements but is not used equally in developing countries like Bangladesh.
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The Use of Online Social Networks and Its Influence on Job-Related Behavior: The Higher Education Context
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used an online survey to evaluate the attitudes and behavior of 157 faculty members and concluded that the use of OSNs influenced the workers' performance, but not job satisfaction, organizational commitment, or organizational citizenship behaviors.
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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.