Using Social Media in Creating and Implementing Educational Practices

2018 ◽  
pp. 91-117
Author(s):  
Robyn Gandell ◽  
Inna P Piven
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Tertiary Education ◽  
Institutional Support ◽  
Educational Practice ◽  
Management Tool ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
Student Centered Learning ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Use Of Social Media

Social media use has become ubiquitous in the everyday lives of many people around the world. Combined with smartphones, these interactive websites provide a vast array of new activities and immediate access to a world of information for both teachers and students. Research into the use of social media in educational practice is growing. In this chapter, the authors examine the use of social media from the perspective of lecturers and learning designers in a tertiary education institute in New Zealand. Data from a qualitative, interview-based research investigation highlights three key themes: 1) the use of social media as a course management tool; 2) the use of social media to enhance student centered learning; and 3) the need for institutional support for using social media in educational contexts.

Exploring the Use of Social Media to Advance K12 Science Education

2018 ◽  
pp. 547-560
Author(s):  
Jinjin Ma ◽  
Dickson K.W. Chiu ◽  
Jeff K.T. Tang
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Science Education ◽  
Online Learning ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Teaching Experience ◽  
Current Level ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
Student Centered Learning ◽  
Use Of Social Media

The astonishing popularity of social media and its emergence into the education arena has shown tremendous potential for innovations in teaching and learning. It enables student-centered learning in a more collaborative and interactive way in the online learning environment. However, few research has been conducted about how to use social media appropriately and effectively in Science education. The main purposes of this project is to explore the experience and perceptions of teachers with relevant teaching experience in using social media for K12 Science education, including the current level and scope of social media use, perception of utility, and its potential impact on science education. The implications, considerations, and challenges for and against the possible use of social media in science education were discussed with possible further research suggestions.

Exploring the Use of Social Media to Advance K12 Science Education

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 47-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jinjin Ma ◽  
Dickson K.W. Chiu ◽  
Jeff K.T. Tang
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Science Education ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Teaching Experience ◽  
Current Level ◽  
Online Learning Environment ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
Student Centered Learning ◽  
Potential Impact ◽  
Use Of Social Media

The astonishing popularity of social media and its emergence into the education arena has shown tremendous potential for innovations in teaching and learning. It enables student-centered learning in a more collaborative and interactive way in the online learning environment. However, few research has been conducted about how to use social media appropriately and effectively in Science education. The main purposes of this project is to explore the experience and perceptions of teachers with relevant teaching experience in using social media for K12 Science education, including the current level and scope of social media use, perception of utility, and its potential impact on science education. The implications, considerations, and challenges for and against the possible use of social media in science education were discussed with possible further research suggestions.

scholarly journals The Importance of Identifying Learning Styles in Medical Education

2018 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 189-193
Author(s):  
Cynthia Caetano ◽  
Roseli Luedke ◽  
Ivan Carlos Ferreira Antonello
Keyword(s):  
Medical Education ◽  
Learning Styles ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Learning Needs ◽  
Learning Approach ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
Student Centered Learning ◽  
Essential Information ◽  
Passive Learning ◽  
Teachers And Students

ABSTRACT Learning is a complex construct that involves several factors, mainly the interaction between teachers and students in the process of teaching and learning. Understanding how students learn and which factors influence academic performance is essential information for lesson planning and evaluation, in addition to allowing a better use of students’ learning potential and outcomes. The ability to constructively modify one’s behavior depends on how well we combine our experiences, reflections, conceptualizations, and planning to make improvements. This seems particularly relevant in medical education, where students are expected to retain, recall, and apply vast amounts of information assimilated throughout their training period. Over the years, there has being a gradual shift in medical education from a passive learning approach to an active learning approach. To support the learning environment, educators need to be aware of the different learning styles of their students to effectively tailor instructional strategies and methods to cater to students’ learning needs. However, the space for reflection on the process of teaching is still incipient in higher-education institutions in Brazil. The present article proposes a critical review of the importance of identifying students’ learning styles in undergraduate medical education. Different models exist for assessing learning styles. Different styles can coexist in equilibrium (multimodal style) or predominate (unimodal style) in the same individual. Assessing students’ learning styles can be a useful tool in education, once it is possible to analyze with what kind of learning students can better develop themselves, improving their knowledge and influencing positively in the process of learning. Over the last century, medical education experienced challenges to improve the learning process and curricular reform. Also, this has resulted in crucial changes in the field of medical education, with a shift from a teacher centered and subject based teaching to the use of interactive, problem based, student centered learning.

scholarly journals The Use of Social Media as a Platform in Education: Ramifications of COVID-19 in Iraq

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 394
Author(s):  
Alaa Makki ◽  
Ahmed Omar Bali
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Personal Initiative ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Technology Applications ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Media Applications

Social media applications have become a vital tool for human daily communication and are widely used in the education process worldwide. Regardless of the use of social media by some instructors as a personal initiative, in Iraq, social media's use for educational purposes has been neglected. The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic pushed the world to implement online teaching using varying technology applications including social media as an essential tool in the learning process. This shifted the Iraqi government’s understanding of social media's role in education to the extent that they formally recommended that the educational departments, schools, universities use social media as a formal platform to keep the education going. However, there were concerns about using social media for several factors such as internet services, information and communication technology skills of instructors and students, integrity, and quality insurance of education. This study investigated the teachers' and students’ perceptions regarding these concerns by adopting a survey method through an online questionnaire using 'google forms' (N= 2010) with responses from teachers and students of universities and high schools and parents of students of basic schools. This study revealed that less than half of the respondents were in favor of using social media in the learning process. The findings suggested that the educational level, age, and geographical hierarchies and jobs of respondents are also correlated with using social media and e-learning.   Received: 12 September 2020 / Accepted: 11 February 2021 / Published: 10 May 2021

Social Media in Tertiary Education

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Ann M. Simpson
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Tertiary Education ◽  
Social Media Use ◽  
Privacy Concerns ◽  
Educational Environments ◽  
Constant State ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Media Applications

Social media use is prevalent throughout the world and is now commonplace in higher education. The devices, support technologies, and social media applications used in higher education are in a constant state of change. Using social media in education creates new and sometimes challenging issues for institutions, instructors, and students. This chapter attempts to address some of the considerations and potential issues that impact our use of social media in the higher education classroom. It examines social media as an educational tool in higher education, possible pedagogies for social media use, potential educational contexts, and privacy concerns raised by social media use in educational environments. This chapter also provides a possible definition for social media and introduces some themes that will be explored in further detail in the following chapters.

scholarly journals Social networks for better education and better grades

2020 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-65
Author(s):  
Alta Pavin Banović ◽  
Sanja Dravinski
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Medical School ◽  
Information Flow ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Positive Attitude ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Educational Content ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Use Of Social Media

The goal of the paper is to show the results of a research conducted among students of Medical School Osijek on the use of social media as tools for exchanging educational content with their teachers, which leads to a better adoption of the content and better grades. Teachers and students learn about social media through preventive programs. The research method is an online survey conducted in 10 class departments. Results: Modern social media used in teaching enable better communication between students and teachers, faster information flow and easier preparation of students for school as well as development of a positive attitude on the use of social media in the teaching process.

Sporting Facebook: A Content Analysis of NCAA Organizational Sport Pages and Big 12 Conference Athletic Department Pages

2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 422-444 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laci Wallace ◽  
Jacquelyn Wilson ◽  
Kimberly Miloch
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Web Sites ◽  
Brand Management ◽  
College Athletics ◽  
User Behavior ◽  
Management Tool ◽  
Communication Tools ◽  
College And University ◽  
Use Of Social Media

Social-media Web sites provide a strategic means for college and university athletic departments to build and maintain a strong brand presence when cultivating relationships with Facebook users. The purpose of this study was to examine the use of social media as a brand-management tool in college athletics. Specifically, this study examined the use of Facebook in the NCAA (N = 10) and in the Big 12 Athletic Conference (N = 12) by content posted throughout the 2010–11 season. These Facebook pages were examined to determine how major college sport organizations were using communication tools, types of brand-management factors, and marketing coverage. The data revealed statistically significant differences in content posted by season, type of communication tools, and fan interaction. The results from this content analysis were used to conceptualize branding, marketing, and Facebook user behavior.

scholarly journals SISTEM PEDAGOGI DALAM CERITA BHAGAWAN DHOMYA LAWAN SISYANIRA (PERSPEKTIF PENDIDIKAN AGAMA HINDU)

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 197
Author(s):  
Komang Pusparani
Keyword(s):  
Religious Education ◽  
Educational Practice ◽  
Educational Environment ◽  
Paddy Fields ◽  
Educational Goals ◽  
Learning Approach ◽  
Educational Tools ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
Student Centered Learning

<em>The Bhagawan Dhomya Lawan Sisyanira story is part ofAdi Parwa. The story is reflection of the interrelationship between pedagogical components, such as: educational goals, educators, learners, educational tools and educational environment, which form a system in educational practice called pedagogy system. Education components of Bhagawan Dhomya Lawan Sisyanira’s storydirected to student centered learning, which a test of obedience and devoted of  Bhagawan Dhomya’s students, namely Sang Arunika tested by paddy fields, Sang Utamanyu tested by shepherds cows and Sang Weda tested by providing dishes in the kitchen. The exam given by Bhagawan Dhomya to his students has been concerned about the nature of learners as the subjects and also educational objects. Therefore, students are directed to adapt and interact with the environment, but still pay attention to the components of pedagogy, so the education can be well done and Hindu religious ecaducation values in Bhagawan Dhomya Lawan Sisyanira’s story relevant to applied as guidance in the implementation of education. Based on the explanation, the purpose of this paper is to describe the pedagogy system, learning approach and Hindu religious education values in Bhagawan Dhomya Lawan Sisyanirastory</em>

scholarly journals THE VIEWS OF PH.D. SAUDI STUDENTS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW TO UTILISE SOCIAL MEDIA TOOLS TO SUPPORT LEARNING

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Omar Abdullah Alshehri
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Saudi Students ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Social Media Tools ◽  
Students Attitudes ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
The University

This paper examined the perception of using social media tools to support learning among Ph.D. Saudi students at the University of Glasgow. It also examined the benefits of using social media tools for learning and the important role that these tools can play to facilitate the educational process. Moreover, it examined the barriers they could face during the use of social media tools in the education process. Participants in this study were 3 Ph.D. Saudi students at the University of Glasgow. Semi-structured interviews were used to collect data for this study. The results indicate that students, both male and female, are using social media tools and their opinions largely coincide regarding the benefits of and barriers to social media usage. The results pointed out that the major barriers to using these tools in learning were a distraction, privacy, and the lack of available high-speed Internet. The study recommended that this study could be replicated at other Saudi Ph.D. students at different universities to investigate teachers and students' perception to use these modern technologies for learning as well as find out factors and barriers that might affect Saudi teachers and students’ attitudes toward using social media tools for learning.

scholarly journals Memperkuat Islam Moderat Melalui Metode Pembelajaran Demokrasi di Madrasah Ibtidaiyah

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 181-194
Author(s):  
Roihan Imamul M ◽  
Ujon Sujono ◽  
Yuri A Fathallah
Keyword(s):  
Learning Styles ◽  
Social Life ◽  
School Curriculum ◽  
School Level ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Remote Communication ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
Student Centered Learning ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Democratic Learning

This paper aims to promote the implementation of the concept of strengthening moderate Islam through democratic learning in Islamic elementary schools. The ease of internet access and remote communication, as the effect of globalization in the field of technology, can be used to gain any information needed, including the Islamic knowledge that can be freely learned without teachers. A literature study was employed to describe the data related to the internalization of moderate Islam and democratic learning. The findings demonstrate that moderate Islam (tawasuth) is a life principle that upholds justice in social life. The values of moderate Islam can be internalized in the school curriculum as a reinforcement starting from the elementary school level through implementing democratic learning. This application can be carried out through various methods such as discussion, question and answer, group work, and simulation. The implementation of democratic learning encourages communicative relationships between teachers and students, fosters friendship, and enhances the value of ‘ukhuwah’ (good relations). Furthermore, these methods emphasize student-centered learning. This study also illustrates that democratic learning provides a wide array of opportunities for students to creatively and critically express their ideas and thoughts in their own learning styles.

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