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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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Teachers’ perceptions of the impact of technology on children and young people's emotions and behaviours
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate teachers' views on how use of technology affects children and young people's emotions and behaviours, and find that teachers recognized the importance of technology as a learning and teaching tool, as long as it is used in a balanced way.
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The Impact of Social Media on Instruction in Higher Education
TL;DR: In this paper, a wide gulf between the unlimited use of technology and higher education, particularly with respect to digital communications between professors and students, is identified, and a discussion of how to use social media in higher education to improve learning through student and faculty collaboration is presented.
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Investigating Characteristics of Learning Environments During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Systematic Review
TL;DR: In this article , the authors investigated the accelerated transition in education from traditional learning environments through online learning environments to social innovative learning environments, and the latest trends of this change, which was divided into three stages: before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic, which highlighted the significance of virtual learning and led to more interactive learning environments.
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Delving into the Specificity of Instructional Guidance in Social Media-supported Learning Environments
TL;DR: In this article, a case study of microblogging-supported collaborative learning tasks was conducted to examine the effect of instructional guidance on student participation patterns in different types of instructional activities, learning modes and with different instructional guidance approaches.
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The potential of online technologies and social media in 21st century teacher professional development & practice: a mixed methods study exploring teachers’ personal, professional development and/or classroom use of online technologies in Ireland and United States of America.
TL;DR: The authors explored connections between teachers' use of online technologies in their personal lives, for professional development and/or within classroom practice in Ireland and the USA, finding that almost half of the Irish teachers felt that engagement in online CPD impacted positively on classroom practice, and reported having integrated information and communication technologies in teaching as a direct result of engagement in the online course.
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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.