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Social Media and the New Academic Environment: Pedagogical Challenges

Social Media and the New Academic Environment: Pedagogical Challenges

Bogdan Pătruţ (Vasile Alecsandri University of Bacău, Romania), Monica Pătruţ (Vasile Alecsandri University of Bacău, Romania) and Camelia Cmeciu (Danubius University of Galati, Romania)
Copyright: © 2013 |Pages: 511
ISBN13: 9781466628519|ISBN10: 1466628510|EISBN13: 9781466628526
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-2851-9
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Pătruţ, Bogdan, Monica Pătruţ, and Camelia Cmeciu. "Social Media and the New Academic Environment: Pedagogical Challenges." IGI Global, 2013. 1-511. Web. 27 Mar. 2020. doi:10.4018/978-1-4666-2851-9

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Pătruţ, B., Pătruţ, M., & Cmeciu, C. (2013). Social Media and the New Academic Environment: Pedagogical Challenges (pp. 1-511). Hershey, PA: IGI Global. doi:10.4018/978-1-4666-2851-9

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Pătruţ, Bogdan, Monica Pătruţ, and Camelia Cmeciu. "Social Media and the New Academic Environment: Pedagogical Challenges." 1-511 (2013), accessed March 27, 2020. doi:10.4018/978-1-4666-2851-9

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As web applications play a vital role in our society, social media has emerged as an important tool in the creation and exchange of user-generated content and social interaction. The benefits of these services have entered in the educational areas to become new means by which scholars communicate, collaborate, and teach.

Social Media and the New Academic Environment: Pedagogical Challenges provides relevant theoretical frameworks and the latest research on social media and its challenges in the educational context. This book is essential for professionals aiming to improve their understanding of social media at different levels of education, as well as researchers in the fields of e-learning, educational science, information and communication sciences, and much more.

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Title Page
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Copyright Page
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Editorial Advisory Board
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Foreword
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Preface
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Acknowledgment
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Pedagogical Challenges of Social Media in Academia
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Chapter 1
Charlotte Holland (Dublin City University, Ireland), Miriam Judge (Dublin City University, Ireland)
Higher education institutions are promoting the integration of online technologies in teaching and learning as an attempt to provide flexible modes of delivery, to diversify the profile of students accessing higher education and to...
Future Learning Spaces: The Potential and Practice of Learning 2.0 in Higher Education
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Chapter 2
Derek E. Baird (Facebook for Educators, USA), Mercedes Fisher (Milwaukee Area Technical College, USA)
Investigating the social structure that works in online courses helps us design for and facilitate student collaboration. The integration of social technologies, and collaborative activities into the course design has a positive...
How Social Design Influences Student Retention and Self-Motivation in Online Learning Environments
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Chapter 3
Laurentiu Soitu (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania), Laura Paulet-Crainiceanu (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania)
This chapter addresses the topic of Facebook use in education, with focus on the learning issues concerning the student-faculty relations and communication on this social network. Its main purpose is to reveal academics’ general and...
Student-Faculty Communication on Facebook: Prospective Learning Enhancement and Boundaries
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Chapter 4
Miikka Eriksson (University of Lapland, Finland), Pauliina Tuomi (Tampere University of Technology, Finland), Hanna Vuojärvi (University of Lapland, Finland)
In this chapter, the focus falls on integrating mobile learning, digital storytelling, and social media into vocational learning practices. The literature review introduces the development of mobile learning and digital storytelling...
Integrating Mobile Learning, Digital Storytelling and Social Media in Vocational Learning
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Social Media as a Means for Current Education
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Chapter 5
Lori B. Holcomb (North Carolina State University, USA), Matthew Krüger-Ross (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
The purpose of this study was to examine the impact social media has on the development of communities of practice and social development in distance education courses. This study evaluated the effectiveness of the integration of...
Enhancing Social Presence and Communities of Practice in Distance Education Courses through Social Media
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Chapter 6
Bogdan Pătruţ (Vasile Alecsandri University of Bacău, Romania), Monica Pătruţ (Vasile Alecsandri University of Bacău, Romania), Camelia Cmeciu (Danubius University of Galati, Romania)
Schools and universities are not the only providers of knowledge any longer. Other types of organizations have become aware that a solid public-serving reason should lie beyond the firm-serving motive. “Doing well by doing good” has...
Framing Non-Formal Education through CSR 2.0
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Chapter 7
Ana Adi (Bournemouth University, UK)
Beyond influencing the ways we communicate and we do business, social media is currently challenging traditional higher education in many respects: from the way in which courses are delivered and students interact with each other and...
Social Media Audit and Analytics: Exercises for Marketing and Public Relations Courses
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National Practices of Social Media in Higher Education
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Chapter 8
Violeta Maria Serbu (The Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies, Romania)
This chapter aims to explore some critical functions that social media is playing for the internal processes included in an alternative higher education model – The Alternative University, developed in Romania, since 2007. This case...
Functions of Social Media in Higher Education: A Case Study
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Chapter 9
Mihai Deac (Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania), Ioan Hosu (Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania)
There has been much research dedicated to the use of blogs in higher education, but a great deal of its enthusiasm is based on data that have the potential to be distorted by social desirability. The current chapter attempts a more...
A Users’ Perspective on Academic Blogging: Case Study on a Romanian Group of Students
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Chapter 10
María-Jesús Díaz-González (University of A-Coruña, Spain), Natalia Quintas Froufe (University of A-Coruña, Spain), Almudena González del Valle Brena (International University of la Rioja (UNIR), Spain), Francesc Pumarola (Expert in Internet issues, Spain)
There have been many contributions to scientific literature which have helped develop a theoretical framework in the field of education and Information Technologies. The contributions have come from the educational sciences and from...
Uses and Implementation of Social Media at University: The Case of Schools of Communication in Spain
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Chapter 11
Sónia Pedro Sebastião (Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal & Center for Administration and Public Policies, Portugal)
The chapter relates several of the difficulties associated with public relations as an academic subject. Bearing these obstacles in mind, a public relations academic program has been defined, along with, a teaching strategy using...
Web Use in Public Relations Education: A Portuguese Example
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Chapter 12
Norsiah Abdul Hamid (University Utara Malaysia, Malaysia), Mohd Sobhi Ishak (University Utara Malaysia, Malaysia), Syamsul Anuar Ismail (University Utara Malaysia, Malaysia), Siti Syamsul Nurin Mohmad Yazam (University Utara Malaysia, Malaysia)
Social media are playing an increasing role in today’s living. The social media platforms allow users to search, create, share, collaborate, and organise contents among them, and at the same time provide virtual self-presentation and...
Social Media Usage among University Students in Malaysia
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Pavel Zemliansky (University of Central Florida, USA), Olena Goroshko (The National Technical University: Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute, Ukraine)
In recent years, cross-national web-based teaching projects have become very popular in many fields. During such projects, participants from different countries work together on collaborative tasks. Communications among project...
Social Media and other Web 2.0 Technologies as Communication Channels in a Cross-Cultural, Web-Based Professional Communication Project
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Chapter 14
Luciana Duranti (University of British Columbia, Canada), Elizabeth Shaffer (University of British Columbia, Canada)
Through the lens of an archival theoretical framework, this chapter examines the digital outputs of the use of social media applications by students, faculty, and educational institutions, and discusses the need to control and manage...
E-Learning Records: Are There Any to Manage? If so, How?
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The Impact of Social Media Technologies on the Academic Environment
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Martin Ebner (Graz University of Technology, Austria)
In the last few years, microblogging has become a phenomenon of our daily lives. Communicating, sharing media files, as well as acting on digital social communities platforms using mobile devices assist our everyday activities in a...
The Influence of Twitter on the Academic Environment
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Chapter 16
Gabriela Grosseck (West University of Timisoara, Romania), Carmen Holotescu (Politehnica University of Timisoara / Timsoft, Romania), Bogdan Pătruţ (Vasile Alecsandri University of Bacău, Romania)
This chapter introduces the phenomenon of microblogging and presents the most relevant options for educators, like: What is a microblog?; What is microblogging?; What can microblogging offer in terms of teaching/training? This...
Academic Perspectives on Microblogging
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Chapter 17
Antonella Esposito (University of Milan, Italy)
This chapter reports selected findings from a small-scale, exploratory study aiming to provide a snapshot of actual modes of uptaking new digital tools for research purposes. The study consists in an interview project, carried out in...
The Impact of Social Media on Scholarly Practices in Higher Education: Online Engagement and ICTs Appropriation in Senior, Young, and Doctoral Researchers
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Chapter 18
Ruxandra Vasilescu (Spiru Haret University, Romania), Manuela Epure (Spiru Haret University, Romania), Nadia Florea (Spiru Haret University, Romania)
“The fixity” of knowledge - the accumulation of fixed elements of knowledge - no longer meets the requirements of nowadays society. The capacity of change, adaptation, and constant updating of these elements according to individual...
Digital Literacy for Effective Communication in the New Academic Environment: The Educational Blogs
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Chapter 19
Ernest Redondo (Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain), Isidro Navarro (Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain), Albert Sánchez (Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain), David Fonseca (Ramón Llull University, Spain)
This chapter discusses the impact of using social media resources and new emerging technologies in teaching and learning processes. The authors of this chapter focus on Spanish architecture-education framework by analyzing three case...
Implementation of Augmented Reality in “3.0 Learning” Methodology: Case Studies with Students of Architecture Degree
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Chapter 20
Theresa Renee White (California State University Northridge, USA)
This chapter presents the findings of an empirical, qualitative, one-day intervention, in which 25 college students were invited to leave all digital technology at home and participate in ten hours of face-to-face communication. The...
Digital Social Media Detox (DSMD): Responding to a Culture of Interconnectivity
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Compilation of References
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About the Contributors
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Index
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