2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohd Shafie Rosli ◽  
Nor Shela Saleh ◽  
Baharuddin Aris ◽  
Maizah Hura Ahmad ◽  
Abbas Abjoli Sejzi ◽  
...  

<p class="apa">The aims of this study are to probe into the motivational factors toward the usage of e-learning and social media among educational technology postgraduate students in the Faculty of Education, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. This study had involved 70 respondents via the means of a questionnaire. Four factors have been studied, named, the factor of technology, exposure, content and social influence. Via Structural Equation Modeling (SEM), this research uncovers that respondents usage of e-learning is being motivated by the factor of technology and content. The respondents use of social media was found to be motivated by the factor of technology and social influence. A strong positive relationship exists between the usage of e-learning and social media suggesting that social media can be manipulated as supporting material for e-learning. Yet, the finding may not be generalized to all Malaysian educational technology postgraduate students.</p>


Author(s):  
Luciana Duranti ◽  
Elizabeth Shaffer

Through the lens of an archival theoretical framework, this chapter examines the digital outputs of the use of social media applications by students, faculty, and educational institutions, and discusses the need to control and manage their creation, use, maintenance, and preservation. The authors draw on a case study that explores the identification, arrangement, description, and preservation of students’ records produced in an eLearning environment in Singapore and is used as a starting point to highlight and discuss the implications that the use of social media in education can have for the management and preservation of educational institutions’ records as evidence of their activity and of students’ learning, to fulfill legal and accountability requirements. The authors also discuss how the use of social media by educators in the classroom environment facilitates the creation of records that raise issues of intellectual property and copyright, ownership, and privacy: issues that can further impact their maintenance and preservation.


Author(s):  
Ernest Mnkandla ◽  
Ansie Minnaar

<p class="3">The adoption of social media in e-learning signals the end of distance education as we know it in higher education. However, it appears to have very little impact on the way in which open and distance learning (ODL) institutions are functioning. Earlier research suggests that a significant part of the explanation for the slow uptake of social media in e-learning lies outside of conventional factors attributed to distance learning reforms.</p><p class="3">This research used the conceptual framework for online collaborative learning (OCL)<em> </em>in higher education. Social media such as blogs, wikis, Skype or Google Hangout, Facebook; and even mobile apps, such as WhatsApp; could facilitate deep learning and the creation of knowledge in e-learning at higher educational institutions.</p><p class="3">This metasynthesis is an interpretative integration of peer-reviewed qualitative research findings on social media in e-learning. It includes a synthesis of data, research methods, and theories used to investigate social media in e-learning. Seven themes emerged from the data which have been recrafted into a framework for social media in e-learning as the final product. The proposed framework could be useful to instructional designers and academics who are interested in using modern learning theories and want to adopt social media in e-learning in higher education as a deep learning strategy.</p>


2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (8) ◽  
pp. 7021-7027
Author(s):  
Mohammed Albarghouthi

Social networking has become pervasive in all sectors in the 21st century. The Kingdom of Bahrain is experiencing a big wave in reference to the use of social media networking in the context of a classroom.  Indisputably, an innovative learning environment will be provided if this technology is astutely used. Within the e-learning environment, the technology acceptance model (TAM) has been heavily used to examine the acceptance of different types of technologies.As such, this study aims at discussing the main factors that affect usage of social media networking in e-learning by students and educators at the Talal Abu-Ghazaleh University College of Business (TAGUCB). Based on TAM, a proposed conceptual model of social media usage in e-learning is developed


Author(s):  
Vimala Balakrishnan ◽  
Kung Keat Teoh ◽  
Tahereh Pourshafie ◽  
Teik Kooi Liew

<p class="MHeading1">This study is an investigation into factors that encourage and/or inhibit the use of social media in the academic learning process between Australian and Malaysian students at higher learning institutions. Push-pull-mooring theory was used as a guide, resulting in seven independent variables (<em>convenience</em>, <em>social influence</em>, <em>academic reasons</em>, <em>ease of use</em>, <em>social networking</em>, <em>barriers</em>, and <em>e-learning perception</em>), and one dependent variable (<em>teaching and learning benefit</em>). The study included a survey of 524 respondents (N<sub>Australia</sub> = 214; N<sub>Malaysia</sub> = 310). Path modeling analysis revealed three common factors between students from both countries: academic reasons, barriers, and social networking. However Malaysian students revealed a significant greater emphasis on academic reasons and barriers compared to their Australian counterparts. No significant difference was noted for social networking, suggesting that the use of social media as a means to maintain social interaction is popular regardless of cultural differences. Alternatively, significant effects were observed for convenience and e-learning perception among Australian students, while ease of use was found to have significant impact on Malaysian students. The findings suggest that cultural differences and the education system will impact the use of social media as an online learning tool.</p>


2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brillian Rosy

<p class="TMCETITLE">Social media makes the user addicted, it seems to be a negative mindset when reviewing social media. The development of the era brings the development of technology and information, it has a considerable impact on behavior patterns and human thinking. At this time, children or teenagers to adulthood have a strong dependence on information. The need for technology and information is very varied, one easy way to access information is with social media. The use of social media without parental controls in children or adolescents, will have a negative impact. On the other hand also positively influence if its use becomes innovation in the learning process. There are several social media that are used as interactive learning media, now known as Learning Management System (LMS). LMS allows educators to create virtual classrooms as a means of interacting and accessing subject matter anytime and anywhere as long as there is an internet network. One of the social media (LMS) that can be used for learning is Schoology. This research is just a theory study which concludes that e-learning based learning media that is Schoology able to change the negative thinking that has been spread in the community will the use of social media.</p>


Author(s):  
Pantri Heriyati ◽  
Dewi Tamara ◽  
Anita Maharani ◽  
Khoirul Azis Rifa'i ◽  
Andi Kusuma Hadi

This paper aims at two things; first, see the participants' interest if learning is carried out with e-learning. Second, how the impact of the use of social media and reward point methods on the improvement in evaluation of learning outcome. The method used is a survey and experiment. The survey is used to find out whether the reward point and/or social media method will affect employee motivation in e-learning process. Experiments are used to see the impact of the use of both methods on selected samples. The sample used was employees of PT PJB Services located in Head Office and selected by purposive technique. Data analysis used ANOVA Test to measure whether the treatment had a significant effect on the dependent variable. This paper is expected to prove that learning, especially studied in this paper, that combined with these both methods will affect positively to employee learning motivation and support the improvement of learning outcome. The results obtained are e-learning with reward points and posting the learning process on Instagram significantly increase employee motivation in learning. However, e-learning with reward points and posting the learning process on Instagram did not significantly affect on increased of evaluation of employee learning outcomes. Keywords: Performance Evaluation, Reward Points, Social Media, Evaluation E-Learning


2014 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Born Christian A. Isip ◽  
Ruth Guinita-Cabahug

The purpose of this study was to investigate students’ perceptions of the available e-learning system and adopting social media networking platforms as university main platform or college e-learning. It also explored the effective use of social networking tools. The study was conducted in five (5) State Universities and Colleges (SUCs) including their satellite campuses in CARAGA Region. The respondents were chosen through random sampling. Frequency, percentage, and average were used to interpret some socio-demographic data of the respondents. The result reveals that the respondents agree in all the enumerated guiding principles in education. Such principles have no effect on students’ perception both towards current e-learning system and in the required skills in effective social networking. The result of the study reveals that students’ satisfaction with the use of social media networking tools as an educational platform is in a moderately positive level. The study also shows that female students are more skillful and interested than males regarding the utilization of social networking tools. This research concludes that students preferred social networking as an educational platform compared to other e-learning system.


2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (01) ◽  
Author(s):  
Harisa Mardiana

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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