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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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Reasons for low engagement time and its impact on the implementation of the Competence-Based Curriculum (CBC) in Secondary Schools in Makoni District Zimbabwe
Albert Z. Muranda,Stephen Mahere +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated reasons for low engagement time and its impact on the implementation of the competence-based curriculum (CBC) in secondary schools in Makoni District of Manicaland Province.
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Bildung through social media
Michael Paulsen,Jesper Tække +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the media situation of the digital age brings new possibilities of Bildung (i.e. emancipation and edification) through comparing the situation before and after the internet, they detect a change in the communicative infrastructure of teaching.
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Seeking news and information through social networking sites: An experience of internally displaced people
TL;DR: In this article , a case study was designed to investigate the use of social networking sites (SNSs) for seeking news and information by internally displaced people (IDP), guided by media dependency theory and related 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.