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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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Insight from the horsemeat scandal: Exploring the consumers’ opinion of tweets toward Tesco
TL;DR: A progressive tweet-mining framework that can serve as a tool for academia and practitioners in crisis management and indicates the significant importance of timely categorising the topics, identifying the sentiment of tweets and understanding the changes of consumer opinions over time in a crisis.
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Problem Based Learning to Enhance Students Critical Thinking Skill via Online Tools
TL;DR: In this paper, a review of the use of online tools in Problem Based Learning (PBL) to enhance critical thinking skills is presented, which is defined as the intellectual thinking skills like analyzing, reasoning, problem solving, creative thinking, making judgement and good decision maker.
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An examination of the relationship between Facebook groups attached to university courses and student engagement
TL;DR: The authors investigated whether courses with an attached official or unofficial Facebook group was related to increased student engagement (in the categories of relationships with faculty members, peer relationships, behavioural engagement, cognitive engagement, valuing and a sense of belonging) and degree identity compared to courses without Facebook groups.
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Engaging Students via Social Media: Is It Worth the Effort?
TL;DR: This paper explored the moderating effect of students' readiness for cocreation on the student social media engagement and perceived value relationship, and found that the effect of pre-curement on the perceived value of social media was significant.
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From governing through data to governmentality through data: Artefacts, strategies and the digital turn
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that current discussions about governance through data in education can be fruitfully extended through: (1) the establishment of connections with wider debates about the role of commensuration processes and governmentality in the recreation of education systems; (2) greater emphasis on the "artefacts" through which data is collected, displayed and retrieved; and (3) the strategies of alignment and resistance that social actors adopt to deal with the increase in data availability and capacity for the automated interrogation of that data.
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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.