A multi-stakeholder view of social media as a supporting tool in higher education: An educator–student perspective

Σταθοπούλου, Αναστασία; Siamagka, Nikoletta-Theofania; Christodoulides, George

doi:10.1016/j.emj.2019.01.008

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“…Social media is a supporting tool for students during the learning process, and it is helpful for educators as well. However, teachers and parents have been advised to maintain a healthy balance when allowing the use of social media, as excessive use may result in adverse effects on students [33]. These study findings revealed that social media has both positive and negative impacts on students' learning processes, and a balanced approach is recommended while using social media applications [3,125].…”

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confidence: 87%

“…The aim of this study is supported by the prior literature, as social media has become a vital element of education, and it has become increasingly important in both course delivery and course assessments. The work of Stathopoulou et al (2019) revealed that incorporating social media in education has a positive impact on students' deep learning experience. Social media is a supporting tool for students during the learning process, and it is helpful for educators as well.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Students now have the opportunity to participate in social discussion by sharing images and pictures, posting their comments, disseminating ideas, and so on [32]. Today, social media generally impacts youths' daily lives and universities students in particular [33]. Digital media and social networking are revolutionizing methods of everyday communication, collaboration, information sharing, and information consumption [34,35].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Typically, the reason for this rapid increase is that teenagers and college and university students are using social media applications to gain global access. These social media sites, such as Facebook and Twitter, are becoming the craze in our society for everyone these days [33]. Today, students are relying increasingly on information and data that is easily accessible on social networking sites and the internet [51].…”

Section: The Negative Effects Of Social Mediamentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Impact of Social Media on Learning Behavior for Sustainable Education: Evidence of Students from Selected Universities in Pakistan

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In today’s world, social media is playing an indispensable role on the learning behavior of university students to achieve sustainable education. The impact of social media on sustainable education is becoming an essential and impelling factor. The world has become a global village and technology use has made it a smaller world through social media and how it is changing instruction. This original study is amongst the few to perform a focalized investigation on revealing the relationship between positive and negative characteristics of social media and the learning attitude of university students for sustainable education. However, this study aims to examine the constructive and adverse factors that impact on students’ minds and how these helped students to share positive and negative aspects with others. It is increasingly noticeable that social networking sites and their applications present enormous benefits for as well as risks to university students and their implications on students’ psychological adjustment or learning behaviors are not well understood. This study adapted the cluster sampling method, and respondents participated from five selected regions. Researchers distributed 1013 questionnaires among the targeted sample of university students with an age range of 16 to 35 years, and they collected 831 complete/valid responses. This study applied the social gratification theory to examine students’ behavior practicing social media usage. This study specifically identified 18 adversarial and constructive factors of social media from the previous literature. The findings revealed that the usage of social media in Pakistan has a negative influence on a student’s behavior as compared to positive aspects. Results may not be generalized to the entire student community as findings are specific to the specific respondents only. This study presents a relationship between antithetical and creative characteristics of social media and exhibits avenues for future studies by facilitating a better understanding of web-based social network use.

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The Impact of Social Media on Learning Behavior for Sustainable Education: Evidence of Students from Selected Universities in Pakistan

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“…Learning method and media are two of the most crucial in learning process (Eslami & Ahmadi, 2019;Stathopoulou, Siamagka, & Christodoulides, 2019;Al-Qasyi, Mohamad-Nurdin, & Al-Imranm 2020). Both of them are important because their position as tools used for teaching.…”

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Edmodo-Based Learning and the Students’ Perception

Tamrin

Basri

2020

Eralingua

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In the 4.0 era, technology is taking a part of many fields, including education. This research aimed is to find out about the perception of students about English class based on online method using Edmodo as medium. Descriptive qualitative method is used in this research. The respondents are the students who took English class and came from different department. This shows that the students preferred online method by using Edmodo for English Class. However, there is still drawbacks of using it.

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