Enriching Higher Education with Social Media: Development and Evaluation of a Social Media Toolkit

While ubiquitous in everyday use, in reality, social media usage within higher education teaching has expanded quite slowly. Analysis of social media usage of students and instructors for teaching, learning, and research purposes across four countries (Russia, Turkey, Germany, and Switzerland) showe...

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Autores principales:	Yasemin Gülbahar, Christian Rapp, Selcan Kilis, Anna Sitnikova
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Publicado:	Athabasca University Press 2017
Materias:	social media in education higher education social media toolkit instructional technology technology integration Special aspects of education LC8-6691
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:199a0f5f236b450fa65b34b5de4aad852021-12-02T17:00:17ZEnriching Higher Education with Social Media: Development and Evaluation of a Social Media Toolkit10.19173/irrodl.v18i1.26561492-3831https://doaj.org/article/199a0f5f236b450fa65b34b5de4aad852017-02-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/2656https://doaj.org/toc/1492-3831While ubiquitous in everyday use, in reality, social media usage within higher education teaching has expanded quite slowly. Analysis of social media usage of students and instructors for teaching, learning, and research purposes across four countries (Russia, Turkey, Germany, and Switzerland) showed that many higher education instructors actively use social media for private purposes. However, although they understand that their students also use it for learning purposes, and instructors sense the potential of social media in teaching, they mostly refrain from doing so due to various barriers. In response, an openly accessible trilingual Social Media Toolkit was developed which analyzes the teaching scenario with several questions, before suggesting, based on an algorithm, the best matching class of social media, complete with advice on how to use it for teaching purposes. This paper explains the rationale behind the toolkit, its development process, and examines instructors’ perceptions towards it. Yasemin GülbaharChristian RappSelcan KilisAnna SitnikovaAthabasca University Pressarticlesocial media in educationhigher educationsocial media toolkitinstructional technologytechnology integrationSpecial aspects of educationLC8-6691ENInternational Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, Vol 18, Iss 1 (2017)
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description	While ubiquitous in everyday use, in reality, social media usage within higher education teaching has expanded quite slowly. Analysis of social media usage of students and instructors for teaching, learning, and research purposes across four countries (Russia, Turkey, Germany, and Switzerland) showed that many higher education instructors actively use social media for private purposes. However, although they understand that their students also use it for learning purposes, and instructors sense the potential of social media in teaching, they mostly refrain from doing so due to various barriers. In response, an openly accessible trilingual Social Media Toolkit was developed which analyzes the teaching scenario with several questions, before suggesting, based on an algorithm, the best matching class of social media, complete with advice on how to use it for teaching purposes. This paper explains the rationale behind the toolkit, its development process, and examines instructors’ perceptions towards it.
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title	Enriching Higher Education with Social Media: Development and Evaluation of a Social Media Toolkit
title_short	Enriching Higher Education with Social Media: Development and Evaluation of a Social Media Toolkit
title_full	Enriching Higher Education with Social Media: Development and Evaluation of a Social Media Toolkit
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title_full_unstemmed	Enriching Higher Education with Social Media: Development and Evaluation of a Social Media Toolkit
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publisher	Athabasca University Press
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Enriching Higher Education with Social Media: Development and Evaluation of a Social Media Toolkit

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