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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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The Effects of Virtual Communities on Group Identity in Classroom Management.
Tu-Kuang Ho,Yu-Tzeng Lin +1 more
TL;DR: Group identity is a critical component in developing effective classroom management as discussed by the authors, and while there have been numerous studies on group identity, they have primarily focused on its effects on the phys...
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Social media engagement in developing countries: Boon or bane for academic libraries?
TL;DR: The progressiveness of social media in academic libraries is the gear to achieve the libraries' objectives, particularly in terms of facilities and services as mentioned in this paper, and academic librarians have been be...
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Use of Social Media in Higher Education Institutions – an Empirical Study Based on Bulgarian Learning Experience
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Social Media for Ubiquitous Learning and Adaptive Tutoring [Guest editors' introduction]
TL;DR: The following three main topics are examined and studied here: ubiquitous learning via social media services, intelligent tutoring in adaptive e-learning, and multimedia enabled social learning.
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Ask an anatomist: Identifying global trends, topics and themes of academic anatomists using twitter.
TL;DR: Though the original intent of the @AskAnatomist site was to engage the general public in anatomy content and knowledge, tweet analysis suggests that academic anatomists were the primary active “tweeters”, suggesting an additional benefit of SoMe communities in the field of anatomy
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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.