Abstract This study provides an updated critical review of the literature on Facebook as a technology‐enhanced learning environment based papers published between 2012 and 2015. It adopts revised classification categories identified in previous study, which emphasized three main affordances – mixing information resources, hybridization expertise widening context learning. The aim is to investigate what extent studies using exploited these affordances. Literature has been also analysed...

Abstract To date, little empirical research on professional use of social network sites has been conducted, particularly with reference to groups teachers F acebook. The paper presents the results two surveys addressed founders five I talian acebook and their members ( n = 1107), aim investigating mechanisms underlying group membership reflecting implications for development. A number hypotheses were tested in order explore nature three dimensions (domain, practice) involved these groups,...

Educators increasingly teach with social media in varied ways, but they may do so without considering the ways which corporations profit from their uses or compromise transparency, equity, health, safety, and democracy through design of platforms. There is a lack scholarship that addresses curricular topics educators might investigate to about platforms potential challenges pose for education society. In this article, we draw on sociotechnical theories conceive as microsystems understand...

Abstract In this study, we adopt an ecological perspective to reflect on how a specific Italian school cluster adapted the challenges of COVID‐19 pandemic by focusing students experienced interplay between continuity and change in teaching learning practices caused pandemic. Specifically, study investigates school's physical/virtual system was (re)configured provide new opportunities for thousand‐plus population primary secondary students, they reacted transition distance terms...

<p class="3">Research on scholars’ use of social media suggests that these sites are increasingly being used to enhance scholarly communication by strengthening relationships, facilitating collaboration among peers, publishing and sharing research products, discussing topics in open public formats. However, very few studies have investigated perceptions attitudes towards for large cohorts scholars at national level. This study investigates the reasons using a sample Italian university...

This paper describes a method for analysing the learning processes that take place in computer‐supported collaborative (CSCL) environment. The approach is based on tracking interactions between learners and tutors. Keeping track of meaningful events serves three main purposes: evaluation quality process, monitoring students' performance real time assessment individual performances. results can be benefit to course designers, tutors/instructors researchers involved experiences....

Purpose While the ubiquity of social media as a mode communication, collaboration, connection and creativity has been widely adopted in journalism, entertainment, healthcare others, field education more reticent to integrate for teaching learning purposes. This paper aims summarize research on how may support educational with specific reference large classrooms. In addition, authors provide practical tips using Twitter from experience typical higher setting: large, undergraduate course...

With the passing of last testimonies, Holocaust remembrance and education progressively rely on digital technologies to engage people in immersive, simulative, even counterfactual memories Holocaust. This preliminary study investigates how three prominent museums use social media enhance general public’s knowledge understanding historical events. A mixed-method approach based a combination analytics latent semantic analysis was used investigate Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube profiles...

With the recent COVID-19 pandemic and disruption of campus-based education, use mobile social networking applications to supplement formal education has attracted a great deal attention. Teachers do have opportunities join students’ online groups share, clarify, exchange housekeeping information course-related content with them. can, in particular, provide English as foreign language (EFL) students more sources linguistic input, interaction, feedback. Research investigating this potential,...

Social media has attracted considerable scholarly interest. Previous research demonstrated the need for a more comprehensive overview of social across diverse disciplines. However, there is lack that identifies scope integration educational settings and how it relates to in other academic Harnessing search terms previous literature reviews, this study collected data on 80,267 articles from Web Science Core Collection database using were based reviews. The analyzed combination co-citation...

Abstract Analysis of interaction patterns is one the most important indicators quality learning in educational web forums. Social network analysis (SNA) gradually assuming importance study as it focuses on interrelationships between individuals, thus providing a holistic perspective group performance. However, studies that use SNA computer‐supported collaborative scenarios derive their data from server log files, assumption this source reflects way people really interacted online. This...