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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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How Consumer Brand Engagement Effect on Purchase Intention? The Role of Social Media Elements
TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors examined the effect on consumer-purchase intentions of social media marketing components, including entertainment, engagement, eWOM, and trendiness on consumer purchase intention.
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Using Social Media to Improve Peer Dialogue in an Online Course About Regional Climate Modeling
TL;DR: How social media can support dialogue in e-learning is explored, which suggests the Facebook group showed improvement because elements of dialogue began to emerge, including open-ended questions and episodes of peer discussion.
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Use of a Social Question Answering Application in a Face-to-Face College Biology Class
TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied how students in a face-to-face biology class use an SQA called Piazza, which enables students to communicate asynchronously about course content in short question and answer exchanges.
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Developing Technology-Centric Best Teaching Practices for Higher Education
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a case study that describes their experiences in identifying and addressing technology-related challenges in higher education, and illustrate how higher education institutions can foster and cultivate faculty expertise and skills in order to enhance their online course development programs and improve the quality of courses and the success of students.
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A Hybrid Classification Algorithm to Classify Engineering Students' Problems and Perks
Mitali Desai,Mayuri A. Mehta +1 more
TL;DR: A novel Hybrid Classification Algorithm is proposed to classify engineering students sentiments into several categories to help future students and education system in decision making.
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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.