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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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Educational potential of online social networks: gender and cross-country analysis
TL;DR: In this paper, gender and cross-country differences in the perception of the educational opportunities provided by Facebook were analyzed, showing that female students have a higher perception of educational opportunities than male students.
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Humor in multimodal language use: Students’ Response to a dialogic, social-networking online assignment
TL;DR: The authors studied how students created and shared humor in an online multimodal learning environment across two semesters of a graduate course on psycholinguistics in education, 28 students posted 1006 pins on a social-networking webpage (Pinterest).
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Integration of social media for smart pedagogy: initial perceptions of senior high school students in Ghana
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the perceptions of senior high school students on the use of social media for pedagogical purposes in the Ghanaian educational system and find that most of the students had positive perceptions towards the integration of social Media and its effects on teaching and learning.
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Evaluation of higher education services: social media learning
TL;DR: In this paper, a study group was formed with a total of 80 participants in order to analyze the opinions of students studying at the University of Kyrenia in Cyprus, where they were asked to make group interviews with each other or with the groups they had formed collectively.
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Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation
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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
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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.