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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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Research Report: Social media for learning: A mixed methods study on high school students' technology affordances and perspectives
TL;DR: For social media to be used as effective learning tools and to adjust students' prior affordances with these tools, complicated efforts in designing, scaffolding, and interacting with students during the process are necessary.
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To use or not to use? Social media in higher education in developing countries
TL;DR: The results showed that social media have a great value for academic-related purposes, particularly as teaching and learning tool; however, the actual use by faculty was at a minimal level, and there was consensus by faculty that if barriers were overcome, social media could be developed as an innovative and effective tool for teaching andlearning.
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Student class standing, Facebook use, and academic performance
TL;DR: The authors examined the time students at different class ranks spent on Facebook, the time they spent multitasking with Facebook, as well as the activities they engaged in on the site (N = 1649).
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On the effectiveness of game-like and social approaches in learning
TL;DR: Study of how well-established approaches compare with more novel ones (gamification and social gamification) in terms of learning performance in an undergraduate course suggests that all experimental conditions significantly impact on learning performance, but socialgamification returned better results interms of immediacy and for all types of assessments.
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Taking social media to a university classroom: teaching and learning using Twitter and blogs
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated how social media facilitates teaching and learning and found that if appropriately deployed, Twitter and blogs are catalysts for the much hyped learner-centered approach to teaching because using these technologies, students shared and discussed course materials, posted their course reflections and interacted amongst themselves and with their lecturer 24/7.
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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.