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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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Social big data
TL;DR: This paper presents a revision of the new methodologies that are designed to allow for efficient data mining and information fusion from social media and of thenew applications and frameworks that are currently appearing under the “umbrella” of the social networks, socialMedia and big data paradigms.
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Engagement Matters: Student Perceptions on the Importance of Engagement Strategies in the Online Learning Environment.
TL;DR: In this article, a survey-based research study examines student perception on various engagement strategies used in online courses based on Moore's interaction framework and concludes that student engagement increases student satisfaction, enhances student motivation to learn, reduces the sense of isolation, and improves student performance.
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Online Learning in Higher Education: Exploring Advantages and Disadvantages for Engagement.
Amber D. Dumford,Angie L. Miller +1 more
TL;DR: The relationship between these engagement indicators and the percentage of classes taken online suggests that an online environment might benefit certain types of engagement, but may also be somewhat of a deterrent to others.
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Facebook and the others. Potentials and obstacles of Social Media for teaching in higher education
Stefania Manca,Maria Ranieri +1 more
TL;DR: The results show that Social Media use is still rather limited and restricted and that academics are not much inclined to integrate these devices into their practices for several reasons, such as cultural resistance, pedagogical issues or institutional constraints.
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Measuring social media influencer index- insights from facebook, Twitter and Instagram
TL;DR: A mechanism for measuring the influencer index across popular social media platforms including Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram is proposed and findings indicate that engagement, outreach, sentiment, and growth play a key role in determining the influencers.
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Facebook and academic performance: Reconciling a media sensation with data
TL;DR: This paper attempts to replicate the results reported in the press release using three data sets: one with a large sample of undergraduate students from the University of Illinois at Chicago, another with a nationally representative cross sectional sample of American 14- to 22-year-olds, as well as a longitudinal panel of American youth aged 14-23.
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Microblogging for Language Learning: Using Twitter to Train Communicative and Cultural Competence
TL;DR: This work analyzes the usefulness of microblogging in second language learning using the example of the social network Twitter and describes how it was used with students of English at the Distant College of Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
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Towards a framework for educational affordances of blogs
Liping Deng,Allan H. K. Yuen +1 more
TL;DR: This study revealed that the salient values of blogs centered on emotionally charged and social-oriented individual expressions as well as self-reflection, and a new dimension - blog-reading - has emerged through the investigation and been added to the original framework.
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Weblog success: Exploring the role of technology
Helen S. Du,Christian Wagner +1 more
TL;DR: A techno-social success model for weblogs is proposed that postulates that a weblog's success is mainly associated with its ability to provide value for its users and readers at the content, the technology, and the social levels.