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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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Development of Personal Learning and Social Networks: Strategies for Knowledge Creation and Sharing in Online Learning Environments
TL;DR: The chapter will argue that in contrast to the widespread opinion that online learners are disadvantaged in social capital development, they benefit from the interconnected learning space and can develop professional and social networks and collaborative knowledge more successfully than their peers in traditional learning environments.
RESEARCH ARTICLE Students' engagement with a collaborative wiki tool predicts enhanced written exam performance
TL;DR: Using regression analysis, it is possible to account for students’ tendency to score well on other psychology exams, thus statistically removing some obvious candidate third factors, such as general talent or enthusiasm for psychology, which might drive this correlation.
Validating a social media typology with machine learning and focus groups
Guy Saward,Amanda Jefferies +1 more
TL;DR: This document is the Accepted Manuscript of the following paper: Guy Saward and Amanda Jefferies, ‘Validating a social media typology with machine learning and focus groups’, in Proceedings of the 15th European Conference on E-Learning.
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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.