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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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Use of Social Media as an Educational Tool: Perspectives of Mongolian University Educators
TL;DR: The authors conducted semi-structured interviews with 25 university educators in individual and group settings to assess the usage of social media in Mongolian higher education, as perceived by the university educators.
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Out-of-class Communication and Personal Learning Environments via Social Media: Students’ Perceptions and Implications for Faculty Social Media Use
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the impact of social media on the credibility of teachers in higher education and found that teachers who used Twitter accounts from faculty who mainly tweeted professional content were viewed as more credible.
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Utilizing Technology in Social Work Education: Development of the Technology Effectiveness and Social Connectedness Scale
TL;DR: The Council on Social Work Education as discussed by the authors understand the growing influence of technology on social work practice and education, including the need for students to develop the knowledge and skills to us, and they support the use of technology in social work education.
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Linked(In)g Sport Management Education with the Sport Industry: A Preliminary Study
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an educational innovation piloted in a sport management course where LinkedIn is introduced through an experiential learning methodology, as a driver of students' career development and as a tool to keep up to date and interact with the sport industry.
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COVID-19 Pandemic: Assessing the Effectiveness of Educational Technology Applications on Improvement of Tutor-student Relationships in Ghanaian Colleges of Education
TL;DR: Nkansah et al. as discussed by the authors investigated the level of effectiveness of educational technology applications on improvement of the relationship between college of education tutors and students' communication and interactivity, seeking and sharing information in learning during this CODVID 19 pandemic era in Ghana.
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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.