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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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University Students' Perceptions of Social Networking Sites (SNSs) in Their Educational Experiences at a Regional Australian University.
TL;DR: The authors explored how higher education students in a regional Australian dual-sector institute use and manage SNSs for personal and study-related activities and their perceptions of how this impacts their educational experiences.
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Facebook in educational research: a bibliometric analysis
Renato Matos Lopes,Daniel José Garcia dos Santos de Faria,Antonio Augusto Fidalgo-Neto,Fabio Batista Mota +3 more
TL;DR: The ego-network of the Educational Research area shows that this area coexists with other areas of knowledge in the use of social networking, such as Computer Science, Linguistics and Health Sciences, indicating an interdisciplinary and transversal nature in different areas of research.
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Convenience Matters: A Qualitative Study on the Impact of Use of Social Media and Collaboration Technologies on Learning Experience and Performance in Higher Education.
TL;DR: This study examines how millennial students in higher education use social media and other collaboration technologies in their collaborative learning activities to co-create new knowledge through the application of existing knowledge and the sharing of ideas and proposes a student-engaged, technology-choice-and-impact framework.
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Public comment sentiment on educational videos: Understanding the effects of presenter gender, video format, threading, and moderation on YouTube TED talk comments.
TL;DR: It is found that using sentiment as a way to moderate offensive content would have a significant effect on non-offensive content and that gender and video format influenced the sentiment of replies and not just the initial comments that were directed toward the video.
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Use of social media, student engagement, and academic performance of business students in Malaysia
Mohammad Said Ibrahim Alshuaibi,Ahmad Said Ibrahim Alshuaibi,Faridahwati Mohd Shamsudin,Darwina Arshad +3 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the role of student engagement as a potential mediator between social media use and academic performance of college students in Malaysia was investigated, and the results showed that cognitive engagement mediated the relationship between the social media and student performance, but not behavioral, emotional or agentic engagement.
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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.