Social Media and Use of Technology in Higher Education

2014 ◽  
pp. 217-234
Author(s):  
Alex Kumi-Yeboah ◽  
Herbert Blankson
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Online Student ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Faculty And Administrators

Social media has, in the past decade, transformed the way students and faculty communicate in the teaching and learning process. The teaching and learning process in higher education is currently experiencing a technological revolution. This is mainly because social media is presently used as a tool by faculty and administrators to communicate with students inside and outside of the classroom. In this chapter, descriptive statistics are used to analyze secondary data on the trend of faculty use of social media by discipline, demographics, and number of years. It also analyzes the use of social media sites, barriers to the use of social media sites, as well as faculty use of social media in higher education. Results show that less than 50% of faculty use social media for instruction. Overall, younger faculty (under 35 years) report the use of SMT 55.7% more than older faculty (55 and above years). Faculty in Arts and Humanities indicate a higher use of social media than all disciplines. There is a strong correlation between faculty use of social media for professional and pedagogical purposes. The majority of faculty use SMT more often for personal reasons than instructional purposes. Results indicate that there is a high faculty awareness of social media use in higher education in recent years, and issues of privacy and integrity of online student submissions emerge as barriers to faculty use of social media.

Social Media and Use of Technology in Higher Education

2018 ◽  
pp. 932-952 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex Kumi-Yeboah ◽  
Herbert Blankson
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Online Student ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Faculty And Administrators

Social media has, in the past decade, transformed the way students and faculty communicate in the teaching and learning process. The teaching and learning process in higher education is currently experiencing a technological revolution. This is mainly because social media is presently used as a tool by faculty and administrators to communicate with students inside and outside of the classroom. In this chapter, descriptive statistics are used to analyze secondary data on the trend of faculty use of social media by discipline, demographics, and number of years. It also analyzes the use of social media sites, barriers to the use of social media sites, as well as faculty use of social media in higher education. Results show that less than 50% of faculty use social media for instruction. Overall, younger faculty (under 35 years) report the use of SMT 55.7% more than older faculty (55 and above years). Faculty in Arts and Humanities indicate a higher use of social media than all disciplines. There is a strong correlation between faculty use of social media for professional and pedagogical purposes. The majority of faculty use SMT more often for personal reasons than instructional purposes. Results indicate that there is a high faculty awareness of social media use in higher education in recent years, and issues of privacy and integrity of online student submissions emerge as barriers to faculty use of social media.

scholarly journals An Analysis of Students’ Attitudes Towards Twitter Use for Academic Purposes: A Case of Saudi Undergreate Female Students.

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 211-218
Author(s):  
Ilham Mansour ◽  
Azza Mansour
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
Students Attitudes ◽  
Use Of Social Media

Social media has increasingly been used in higher education classrooms as educators lean on technology to mediate and enhance their teaching and learning process. This study aims to explore students’ perceptions and attitudes towards the use of social media as an effective academic tool. 149 Undergraduate Saudi female students, enrolled in four courses at Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, were surveyed about their attitude towards the use of Twitter in classroom interactions, as well as, their perceptions regarding the use of social media in teaching practice. Findings indicate that, in general, students have positive attitudes toward using Twitter for academic purposes. Additionally, students favorably perceive that Twitter facilitates knowledge sharing, collaborations, and interactions in the classroom but to a lesser extent enhancing their sense of learning. This study sheds light on the potential opportunities of the use of Twitter in the classroom, and what benefits could it bring to the teaching and learning process in higher education that may affect the quality of the students’ learning experience.

scholarly journals SOCIAL MEDIA IN HIGHER EDUCATION AND ITS EFFECT ON GLOBAL CHALLENGE

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (01) ◽  
Author(s):  
Harisa Mardiana
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Mixed Method Research ◽  
Global Challenge ◽  
Digital Devices ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Data Collection Technique ◽  
Use Of Social Media

My interest of doing the research is to investigate the effect of social media in higher education on globalization. As the learning process changes, social media takes a step ahead to present itself to support the learning process in campus. Furthermore, students can communicate and share everything about the content of learning with their peers, lecturers, staff and others. The changes refer to available demand on access toward contents, schedules, and news, in different time, location and digital devices that provide the user with the chance to interact through comments, feedback and creative participation. The objective of the research is to describe the problems faced by the stakeholders of the higher education regarding the use of social media in higher education context. The research found that ignorance or lack of preparation were the most significant challenges. In fact, innovation in learning has converged with all application in mobile device, and the change of learning has led to the new management. The design of the research was a mixed method research quantitative and qualitative method. Data collection technique was done through observation, questionnaires and interview and data analysis. The result of the research showed that social media in higher education need to be implemented in university. And the effect in higher education needed to be incorporated into curriculum for the learning by social media and the adoption of social media as a teaching and learning process including the program of e-learning.

Use of Social Media in Online Learning

2017 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Agah Tugrul Korucu ◽  
Handan Atun
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Limited Range ◽  
Digital Native ◽  
New Material ◽  
Social Media Tools ◽  
Digital Competencies ◽  
Use Of Social Media

Social media tools are used to visualize resources especially. However, there is a limited range of created content in social media, instructors and students have a tendency to use shared materials rather than edit an existed material or create a new material. However, this does not change the situation of social media in education, it is proved that social media improves teaching and learning process. Therefore, researchers stressed that instructions should consider supporting academic staff with technical and pedagogical guidance as the academicians do not meet the requirements of digital native students. Their web self-efficacy and digital competencies should be improved (Manca & Ranieri, 2016a; Manca & Ranieri, 2016b).

Investigating the Effects of Social Media on Higher Education with a Case Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (01) ◽  
pp. 2040023 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mamoun Masoud Abdulqader ◽  
Yousof Zohair Almunsour
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
The Other ◽  
Media In Education ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Teaching Learning

This research aims to investigate the effects of social media use on higher education teaching and learning as well as the students’ academic performance. A total of 275 students and faculty members from the College of Computer Science and Information Technology at Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University took part in the study. The participants answered survey questions to analyse information on their use of social media in education and how that has affected their teaching, learning and grades. A majority of the participants reported that they used social media in training. However, they also stated that social media platforms were beneficial in academic matters. The number of participants who stated that the use of social media in learning helped improve their grades was 43%. The other 57% thought that social media had no impact on their grades or had an adverse effect or were undecided.

scholarly journals Educators Perspectives on Integrating Social Media to the ESL Classroom

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. p478
Author(s):  
Jorge F. Figueroa ◽  
Emarely Rosa-Dávila
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Puerto Rico ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Emergent Technologies ◽  
University Level ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
The University ◽  
Study Participants ◽  
Esl Classroom

This article presents a study on the perspective of two higher education professors from Puerto Rico in the use of social media for the ESL classroom. It covers the millennial generation characteristics and its influence on the teaching and learning process at the university level. Several strategies within the use of social media and emergent technologies are presented. The study participants reflect on the use of social media in the classroom and present how beneficial it has been in student achievement, retention, and engagement. Several remarks are made within the use of social media for the classroom and participants expose their experiences in the ESL classroom at the university level.

Extending the Apprenticeship Model of Music Instruction in Higher Education With Facebook Groups

2018 ◽  
pp. 136-163
Author(s):  
Tamara R. Meredith ◽  
Scott J. Warren
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Music Instruction ◽  
Faculty Concerns ◽  
Apprenticeship Model ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Music Faculty ◽  
Media Channels ◽  
And Training

Although faculty may not believe that they are legitimately “teaching” while engaging with students via Facebook, results of interviews and publicly available Facebook data clearly document intentional music faculty activities that fit the description of teaching through enculturation. This situates the phenomenon of Facebook groups firmly within the larger apprenticeship model in use in music departments; the process of enculturation through Facebook is used to teach new apprentices how to become functional members of their musical communities. Recommendations generated from the research and discussed in this chapter include addressing faculty concerns about personal and professional risk, departmental development of guidelines for Facebook group use and management that is based in enculturation theory, and training for music faculty in the use of social media channels as opportunities for teaching and learning.

scholarly journals Online teaching English for Business and Economics in the time of pandemics

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 27-36
Author(s):  
Carina Ionela Branzila
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Teaching English ◽  
High Demand ◽  
Online Teaching And Learning ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
The Future ◽  
Higher Education Teaching

This article looks into the specifics of teaching in these challenging times, particularly after the outbreak of the Covid pandemics early in 2020 and the lockdown that followed, which forced the general migration of teaching into online. Teaching with the use of technology, already in high demand worldwide, has soared during this period, having its detractors as well as its committed followers. The article looks into recent research on how technology impacts the learning process and how this might develop in the future, influencing teachers, students, campus-based teaching and education in general in the following years. There are obviously minuses and pluses to online teaching and learning; this article will discuss some of them, with practical examples and information from the particular context of higher education teaching in Romania.

Future Directions

2018 ◽  
pp. 118-135
Author(s):  
Ann M. Simpson
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Learning Context ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Practical Guidelines ◽  
Gamified Learning ◽  
Use Of Social Media

This chapter considers future directions for emerging social media technologies and their potential for teaching and learning practice in higher education. While technologies that support social media constantly change, it provides some simple and practical guidelines to assist teachers with their practice and use of social media technologies in their classrooms. This chapter acknowledges the evolving nature of the technologies available in today's teaching and learning context as well as ones that are considered to impact higher educational learning and teaching in the future, including descriptions of augmented and virtual reality and gamification and gamified learning.

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