Implementation of Social Media for Enhancing Learning Interactivity in Formal Education
Keywords:
learning, higher education, social media, communication, knowledge, interaction, competence.
Abstract
n view of the rapid growth of social media and its huge potential for facilitating communication, sharing experience and ideas and bringing together different cultures and societies it could not but also develop the idea of implementing social media in learning in order to enhance its interactivity. This article concerns the problems of social media introduction into the practice of students’ learning, particularly with regard to its psychological and educational issues. It provides an overview of benefits social media provides in enhancing students’ learning interactivity and competences in their professional domain.
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Ducourtioux S. E. (2012) Learning and Foreign Language Teaching: The Challenge of a New Student-Teacher Relationship / S. Ducourtioux. – Learning for Societal Needs. 2012. Katowice – Cieszyn, pp. 363 – 375.
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Jurgenson N. (1999) When Atoms Meet Bits: Social Media, the Mobile Web and Augmented Revolution. Available at http://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/4/1/83
Kolb D. (1984) Experiential learning: Experience as the source of learning and development / D. Kolb. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall.1984.
Kop R. (2010) The design and development of a personal learning environment: Researching the learning experience. Paper H4 32 presented at the European Distance and E-learning Network Annual Conference 2010, June 9–12, Valencia, Spain.
Lepi K. (2013) 6 Technologies That Will Change Higher Education. Edudemic website. Available at http://edudemic.com/2013/02/6-technologies-that-will-change-higher-education/
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RuiGu, Kunihiko Higa A. (2013) Study on Communication Media Selection: Comparing the Effectiveness of the Media Richness, Social Influence, and Media Fitness [Електронний ресурс] / RuiGu, Kunihiko Higa, Douglas R. Moodie. – In Scientific ResearchOpen Access, Vol.4 No.3. 2013. Available at http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=7488
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Sekret I., Kommers P. (2014) Conceptual issues of the digital competence development in the framework of the council of the European Union pp, 183- 194 DIVAI 2014, The 10th International Scientific Conference on Distance Learning in Applied Informatics. 183 ISBN: 978-80-7478-497-2
Sekret I. Williams P., (2013) Social media in learning: a case of implementing Facebook in undergraduates’ learning. In Gómez Chova L, López Martínez A, Candel TorresI (Eds.) Edulearn 2013: Proceedings of 5th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies 1-3 July, 2013, Barcelona, Spain pp. 5198-5206 [CD-ROM]
Smyrnova-Trybulska, E. (2012) Some Theoretical and Practical Aspects of Educational Portal Design Based on CMS System. In E-Learning for Societal Needs. 2012. Katowice – Cieszyn. pp. 275 – 303.
Weller M. (2012) A pedagogy of abundance / M. Weller. – Spanish Journal of Pedagogy, № 249. 2012. pp. 223–236.
Wellman B. (2013) Digitizing Ozymandias. In: Social Issues in Computing. Available at http://socialissues.cs.toronto.edu/2013/03/digitizing-ozymandias/
Williams P. (2002) The Learning Web The Development, Implementation and Evaluation of Internet-Based Undergraduate Materials for the Teaching of Key Skills. 2002. Available at http://alh.sagepub.com/content/3/1/40.abstract
Voorn J.J. Ronald, Kommers A.M. Piet (2013) Social Media and Higher Education: introversion and collaborative learning from the student's perspective. In: International Journal of Social Media and Interactive Learning Environments,Volume 1, Number 1/2013. Available at http://inderscience.metapress.com/content/g352526185534l94/
Published
2018-07-12
How to Cite
Williams, P., & Sekret, I. (2018). Implementation of Social Media for Enhancing Learning Interactivity in Formal Education. International Journal of Pedagogical Advances in Technology-Mediated Education, 1(1), 68 - 83. Retrieved from http://patme-journal.iatels.com/index.php/patme/article/view/15
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