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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.
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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.

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Dissemination of technology information through YouTube: a case of renewable energy technology

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an in-depth and systematic measurement study on the characteristics of YouTube videos on renewable energy issues by using a hundred YouTube most viewed videos, and they present an analysis of the relationship between renewable energy and YouTube.
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Emerging Technologies for Education: 4th International Symposium, SETE 2019, Held in Conjunction with ICWL 2019, Magdeburg, Germany, September 23–25, 2019, Revised Selected Papers

TL;DR: Main findings reveal that the schoolteachers are storing and actively using student data as well as Big Data which involve the support of the teachinglearning process and it emerged that a small number of teachers is archiving digital multimedia.
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Deep learning analysis of social media content used by Bahraini women: WhatsApp in focus:

TL;DR: The study found that WhatsApp has enabled Bahraini women to communicate and share information with others and social interaction, communication, and escapism featured strongly as the most popular reasons for using WhatsApp.
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Social Media and Higher Education: Does Digitally Enabled Learning Have a Place in Law Schools?.

TL;DR: In this paper, social media and higher education: FOMO (fear of missing out) or does digitally enabled learning have a place in Law Schools? And does digital learning have an appropriate place in law schools?
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Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation

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

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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Mind in society

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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.
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