Using social media to promote deep learning and increase student engagement

Honeychurch, Sarah; Ahmed, Shazia

doi:10.7190/socmedhe/2015/4

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“…However, as this paper (Collins-Jones, 2016) is a report on an intern project and not a research paper, there is no data or evaluation of the effectiveness of using social media in this way. Research by Ahmed and Honeychurch (2016) and (Goodband et al, 2012) identify both positive and negative aspects to the promotion of student usage of Facebook Groups. Though these studies did feature students taking mathematics, they did not focus on MLS.…”

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Mathematics support centres’ online presence: provision in Ireland and the UK in 2018

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Mulligan

O'Malley

2020

Teaching Mathematics and Its Applications: An International Journal of the IMA

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Mathematics Support Centres are available in the majority of Higher Education Institutions in Ireland and the UK. Whilst the online presence of these centres appears to be increasing, there is little research to date which considers its breadth or effectiveness. In this paper we consider the results of a survey on the online presence of support centres in Ireland and the UK. We discuss the opportunities that arise from such a presence, the challenges that exist and what the results of the survey mean for individual practitioners and the wider mathematics support community.

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Mathematics support centres’ online presence: provision in Ireland and the UK in 2018

Bhaird

Mulligan

O'Malley

2020

Teaching Mathematics and Its Applications: An International Journal of the IMA

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“…Another possibility would be to use social media to recreate some of the elements of an affinity space in a closed space where, for example, junior students can talk about problems that they are having with their studies and other students, including senior students, can be on hand to answer these questions. For the last six years Sarah has been running a type of VPAL with colleagues by using Facebook groups (Honeychurch and Ahmed, 2016).…”

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Massive Open Online Courses as affinity spaces for connected learning: Exploring effective learning interactions in one massive online community

Honeychurch

Patrick

2018

Research in Comparative and International Education

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This paper describes a participatory online culture – Connected Learning Massive Open Online Collaboration (CLMOOC) – and asks how its ethos of reciprocity and creative playfulness occurs. By analysing Twitter interactions over a four-week period, we conclude that this is due to the supportive nature of participants, who describe themselves as belonging to, or connected with, the community. We suggest that Gee’s concept of an affinity space is an appropriate model for CLMOOC and ask how this might be replicated in a higher education setting.

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The Application of Online Social Media in a Thai Tutorial School,A Case Study of Echo Aviation, Thailand

Ua-Umakul¹

2017

IJESR

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This research aimed to study the using of online social media in the Echo Aviation Tutorial School Thailand, and to assess the opinion of students, about using online social media in this school. Purposive sampling was employed.The participants were Executive School Director and the twenty students, who enrolled in English for Communication.There were two research instruments in this study: 1) the structured interview form, and 2) the opinion assessment form.The content validity was examined by three experts in the area of educational studies. The IOC value was between 0.67 -1.00. The data analysis was divided into two parts: 1) qualitative data were analyzed by content analysis, and 2) quantitative data were analyzed by arithmetic mean and standard deviation. The results were shown as follows:1) The benefits of using online social media in this school were revealed in three aspects: 1.1) it was used for notifying the school information conveniently, rapidly, and saved cost for school administration, 1.2) it can promote the students' class participation in real time continually, and 1.3) it increased the students' learning achievement scores by their potential.2) The assessment of students' opinion was in the high level (x ̅ = 4.29, SD = 0.65).There were two recommendations of this study. The school ought to explain the using of all functions in online social media to students in more details and compare the using of online social media proper with the school for instruction.

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Using social media to promote deep learning and increase student engagement

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Mathematics support centres’ online presence: provision in Ireland and the UK in 2018

Mathematics support centres’ online presence: provision in Ireland and the UK in 2018

Massive Open Online Courses as affinity spaces for connected learning: Exploring effective learning interactions in one massive online community

The Application of Online Social Media in a Thai Tutorial School,A Case Study of Echo Aviation, Thailand

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