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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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How does scholarly use of academic social networking sites differ by academic discipline? A case study using ResearchGate
TL;DR: The results show that user participation and RG use characteristics vary by discipline, and users from higher research activity level universities tend to show better performance in RG metrics than their lower research activitylevel counterparts regardless of discipline.
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Using social media to enhance health professional education.
Paul A. Bergl,Martin Muntz +1 more
TL;DR: The authors explore the benefits and challenges of introducing various platforms, and students’ reactions to this type of interaction, and in particular they discuss the use of Twitter, Yammer, Facebook, Instagram, Tumbler and YouTube.
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How Do University Students’ Web Search Behavior, Website Characteristics, and the Interaction of Both Influence Students’ Critical Online Reasoning?
Marie-Theres Nagel,Svenja Schäfer,Olga Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia,Christian Schemer,Marcus Maurer,Dimitri Molerov,Susanne Schmidt,Sebastian Brückner +7 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used a framework for the assessment of students' critical online reasoning (COR) to measure university students' ability to critically use information from online sources and to reason on contentious issues based on online information.
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Using Social Media for Learning in High Schools: A Systematic Literature Review.
Wilson O. Otchie,Margus Pedaste +1 more
TL;DR: This article conducted a systematic literature review using the EBSCOhost database and identified seven approaches to using social media in learning in high schools: interaction, information dissemination, communication, collaboration, teaching, learning, and resource sharing, socialization, and entertainment.
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Social Media and Workplace Practices in Higher Education Institutions: a Review
Annalisa Manca,Andrew Whitworth +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a literature review investigates how the impact of social media has been studied with regard to a broad range of higher education workplace practices, that extend beyond teaching and learning, into areas such as research, administration, professional development and the development of shared academic cultures and practices.
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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.