Social Media in Higher Education and Its Effect on Global Challenge

Abstract

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.

Incorporating digital scholarship content in South African library and information science schools

“…There are gaps and redundancies in the South African LIS curriculum concerning digital scholarship (Wood and Evans, 2018; Sibiya and Ngulube, 2023). Mardiana (2019) posits that with the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) in progress, education has to match the demands of the job market. The market needs graduates with competitive technological skills relevant to the 4IR.…”

“…Technology has a significant impact on higher education, as it has become the core differentiator attracting students and corporate partners (Economist Intelligence Unit, 2008). The implication is that, with the introduction of fast technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI), education in general has to change to suit the needs of the job market (Mardiana, 2019). Rumsey (2011) cites that these technologies are at the epicentre of digital scholarship.…”

“…The current issue and full text archive of this journal is available on Emerald Insight at: https://www.emerald.com/insight/0143-5124.htm (Mardiana, 2019). Rumsey (2011) cites that these technologies are at the epicentre of digital scholarship.…”