Social Media, Social Learning Systems, and the Women’s Movement in Tunisia After the Jasmine Revolution

2017 ◽  
pp. 167-193
Author(s):  
Sana Jelassi
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Learning ◽  
Women's Movement ◽  
Learning Systems

Towards Disability-Aware Social Media-Enriched Virtual Learning Environments

2021 ◽  
pp. 922-936
Author(s):  
Julius T. Nganji
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Learning ◽  
Students With Disabilities ◽  
Learning Environments ◽  
Virtual Learning ◽  
Learning Systems ◽  
Virtual Learning Environments ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Use Of Social Media

The increasing use of social media brings about the need to consider learners with disability when designing learning environments incorporating social learning. Additionally, there is need for educational institutions to consider social media-enriched learning environments. By default, designers and developers of virtual learning environments tend to design for learners without disabilities. The consequences for learners with disabilities are enormous. This chapter aims to propose a disability-aware approach to designing social learning environments that advocates that stakeholders consider the needs of learners with disabilities throughout development. The challenges that learners with disabilities face when interacting with learning systems are reviewed, and a disability-aware approach to designing social learning environments is presented, examining how this could be practically implemented. The opinions and recommendations of 48 students with disabilities from two universities in the United Kingdom and Canada are presented.

scholarly journals Linking Facebook to WordPress for educational purposes – a proposed architecture sustaining social learning

2020 ◽  
pp. 6-11
Author(s):  
I. A. Bogoslov ◽  
M. R. Georgescu ◽  
A. G. Pitic
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Social Learning ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Learning Processes ◽  
Learning Systems ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Social Learning Processes

Ensuring social educational processes does not only represent a trend in terms of the evolution of e-Learning systems, but also one of the main points of interest targeted by the developers of certain social platforms. In fact, raising awareness with respect to the importance of using Social Media tools in education leads to a two-way approach: both by integrating social tools into e-Learning systems and by integrating learning facilities into Social Media platforms. Over time, the social network Facebook has benefited from intense use at global level, including in e-Learning processes. In order to meet the current needs in terms of teaching and learning, Facebook has provided users with built-in opportunities to facilitate social learning processes. However, expanding the Social Learning features integrated in Facebook can be a challenge at present, because of the policies imposed for the social network. The present article outlines a proposed architecture for extending the Social Learning functionalities offered within Facebook Groups by ensuring the correlation with WordPress open-source CMS. Aspects related to how the correlation between the two platforms can be ensured, the necessary tools and the steps involved will be discussed. Also, the main implications and advantages offered by such an architecture and the identified limitations will be highlighted.

Understanding and developing communities of practice through diagramming

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Blackmore ◽  
Natalie Foster ◽  
Kevin Collins ◽  
Ray Ison
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Social Learning ◽  
Communities Of Practice ◽  
Water Governance ◽  
Learning Systems ◽  
Developing Communities

This chapter draws on the authors' experiences over many years of research into social learning systems. The authors particularly focus on their work on communities of practice as social learning systems and reflect on their experiences of using diagramming to map and share understandings and develop knowledge, in the context of water governance and climate change. They build on a range of systemic and participatory traditions to design their research processes. Some of the authors have also taught these techniques and have developed an understanding of how skills in diagramming can be developed both for exploration and for communication. The authors therefore reflect on the effectiveness of diagramming processes for different purposes, reviewing a range of the techniques' strengths and limitations from their use in different contexts.

A Behavioral Economics Approach to Digitalization

2019 ◽  
pp. 107-122
Author(s):  
Dirk Beerbaum ◽  
Julia Margarete Puaschunder
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Machine Learning ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Behavioral Economics ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Learning Systems ◽  
Business Reporting ◽  
Intelligent Machines ◽  
Private Investors ◽  
Coding Rules

Technological improvement in the age of information has increased the possibilities to control the innocent social media users or penalize private investors and reap the benefits of their existence in hidden persuasion and discrimination. This chapter takes as a case the transparency technology XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language), which should make data more accessible as well as usable for private investors. Considering theoretical literature and field research, a representation issue for principles-based accounting taxonomies exists, which intelligent machines applying artificial intelligence (AI) nudge to facilitate decision usefulness. This chapter conceptualizes ethical questions arising from the taxonomy engineering based on machine learning systems and advocates for a democratization of information, education, and transparency about nudges and coding rules.

Immersive Multimedia in Information Revolution

2019 ◽  
pp. 192-210
Author(s):  
Celia Soares ◽  
Emília Simão
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Learning Systems ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Technological Advancement ◽  
Innovation In Education ◽  
Multimedia Education ◽  
Immersive System ◽  
External Stakeholders ◽  
The Impact

This chapter describes the immersive multimedia's role in our lives, educational activities, and business, and social media benefits from the growth of this emerging reality. Consequently, this chapter analyses the impact and the use for immersive multimedia in different contexts. In the modern world, technological advancement led to the discovery of the powerful application of multimedia. Education and learning systems have significant contribution to improve this field of research. This chapter is going to help expanded the knowledge and information about multimedia in general and immersive multimedia in particular, and its strong influences on education. How technological innovation can be used by external stakeholders to direct and promote innovation in education, how teaching can benefit from the proximity to technology, and how social networks can seize the advantages of an immersive system are some of the answers the authors try to find in this chapter.

Commerce, piety and politics: Indonesian young Muslim women’s groups as religious influencers

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (10) ◽  
pp. 2140-2159 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annisa R Beta
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Women's Movement ◽  
Muslim Women ◽  
The Political ◽  
Women's Groups ◽  
Muslim Identity ◽  
Political Analysis ◽  
Gender Regime ◽  
Women’S Groups

The article discusses the indiscernibility of social-media-based young Muslim women’s groups’ (YMWGs) transformative roles in socio-political analysis, standing in contrast to the groups’ visibility in Indonesian young women’s everyday lives. How does the (in)visibility of the YMWGs reconfigure the (political) subjectivity of Muslim womanhood? How should we understand the influence of this form of ‘women’s movement’ in the re-invention of Muslim identity? This article proposes the notion of ‘social media religious influencer’ to understand the groups’ conflation of religious, political and commercial elements in their online and offline representations and their encouragement to their followers to do self-transformation. The article demonstrates how, although such creative conflation challenges prevailing ideas about young Muslim women, it requires the young women to remain and take part in the prevailing gender regime by maintaining female conformity.

Iran’s women’s rights movement will be contested

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Women's Movement ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Negative Reaction ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Status ◽  
Wide Scale ◽  
Police Enforcement

Significance Although this remains against the law, he said police enforcement could lead to a "wide-scale negative reaction". An ongoing Iranian conversation about economic and political women’s rights has gained more attention since 2017, through the global #metoo movement. Impacts Gradual changes to social realities are more likely than revised legislation on women’s rights. Social media will be the dominant method of spreading the Iranian feminist agenda. Momentum created by economic discontent could be used by the women’s movement to question the status quo.

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