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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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Influences upon social media adoption and changes to training delivery in vocational education institutions
TL;DR: This paper investigated the adoption of social media in Australian vocational education and training institutions, and the characteristics of individuals and organisations that were used by social media, individuals and organizations that were pr...
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Fewer students are benefiting from doing their homework: an eleven-year study
Arnold L. Glass,Mengxue Kang +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, performance on homework questions was compared with performance on related exam questions querying the same fact or principle, was used to assess the effect of answering online homework questions o...
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Gender as a moderator of the relationship between Facebook® addiction and self-efficacy for learning in a college sample: the mediating effect of deliberative belief
TL;DR: In this article, the mediating role of deliberative belief and the moderating roles of gender on the relationship between Facebook addiction and self-efficacy for learning among 690 college students were explored.
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The Use of Social Media as an Instructional Tool to Increase Marketing
TL;DR: Can social media be used in higher education to improve learning through student and faculty collaboration, and just as importantly can the use of social media being used as a recruiting tool for higher education institutions?
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The Implicit Curriculum: Student Engagement and the Role of Social Media
TL;DR: In this paper, an exploratory study conducted as a component of an assessment of the implicit curriculum in one master's-level social work program is presented, where web-based surveys were used to evaluate implicit curriculum.
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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.