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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.
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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.

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Social Media and Current Society

Judie Woodmen
TL;DR: The importance of social media in the daily lives of people all around the world has been discussed in this paper, where the authors highlight the human dependency on social media and emphasize the importance of human interaction with social media.
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Social Media and the High School Environment

TL;DR: This study looks at how social media sites are being used in the high school environment and what is the impact on the learning process and social well-being of students.
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Instagram as a Learning Space to Introduce Virtual Technology Tools Into Post-COVID Higher Education

TL;DR: In this article , an innovative learning project in which undergraduate marketing students manage and generate content on an official Instagram profile is presented. But the project is designed to provide students with a more active role in the learning process through the application of new virtual technology tools.
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Lecturers’ and students’ perception of social media for teaching and learning during the covid-19 pandemic: a case study of achievers university, owo, nigeria

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the perception of lecturers and students of Achievers University, Owo, Nigeria, about the use of social media for teaching and learning during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Social Network to Improve the Educational Experience with the Deployment of Different Learning Models

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present OPPIA, an educational social network that includes three learning models: self-learning, tutoring learning, and collaborative learning, allowing each individual to share information, with the difference that it focuses fully on education.
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Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation

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

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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Mind in society

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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.
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