scholarly journals Debating the use of social media in higher education in Australasia: Where are we now?

2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie Willems ◽  
Chie Adachi ◽  
Francesca Bussey ◽  
Iain Doherty ◽  
Henk Huijser
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Collective Wisdom ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
A Site

The integration of social media into higher education is having a significant impact on learning and teaching. As they become enmeshed in the fabric of academia, they are also becoming a site of contestation, especially in relation to teaching and learning. This research paper explores the key issues dominating current debates about the use of social media in higher education in Australasia. By exploring themes emerging from a debate around the use of social media in higher education in Australasia, it integrates additional comments from the collective wisdom of experienced colleagues from around the globe, as captured in the debate’s Twitter feed and live Periscope streaming. These comments highlight points of sensitivity in the adoption of social media in higher education in Australasia. This paper presents the findings and some key ideas that emerged from the debate.

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.

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 Editorial

2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Penny Welch ◽  
Susan Wright
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Race And Ethnicity ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Institutional Politics ◽  
International Policies ◽  
The Social ◽  
Programme Design ◽  
A Site ◽  
The University

Welcome to Volume 4 of Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences. LATISS has been gradually widening its focus from its point of origin in the U.K. and this issue is truly international with material from Latin America, U.S.A, Sweden and England. LATISS’s approach – to study and reflect on the detail of teaching and learning practices in contexts of institutional change and national and international policies – is also well exemplified by the articles in this issue. For example, three of the articles explore issues of ‘race’ and ethnicity in connection with programme design, institutional politics and classroom relations respectively and in very different historical and policy contexts. Two articles also connect to topics on which LATISS has recently published special issues: on gender in higher education and on using the university as a site to critically explore the meaning and operation of neoliberalism.

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.

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.

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, learning and connections for international students: The disconnect between what students use and the tools learning management systems offer

2019 ◽  
pp. 44-56
Author(s):  
Jade Sleeman ◽  
Catherine Lang ◽  
Eva Dakich
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Social Network ◽  
International Students ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Social Network Sites ◽  
Survey Study ◽  
Discussion Forums ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Use Of Social Media

With the increased focus on the use of digital platforms to facilitate teaching and learning comes the challenge of creating connections between international students and their new classmates. The use of social media in higher education may be one avenue that can enable not only learning but also social connections between students to improve the international study experience and sense of community. This article reports on the findings of a small survey study at an Australian university, which demonstrate that the majority of international students surveyed had greater prior experience with social network sites for personal and educational use rather than wikis, blogs, and discussion forums, which are often used in institutional settings. Furthermore, the results suggest that the educational use of social network sites led many participants to add new classmates as profile friends. These findings have implications for the choice of digital platforms for pedagogical use of social media and how that may impact on the teaching of international students in higher education for making connections.

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.

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