Integrating social media as cooperative learning tool in higher education classrooms: An empirical study
| Autor: | Sami Azam, Narumon Sriratanaviriyakul, Mostafa Hamadi, Jamal El-Den |
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| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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Cooperative learning
Knowledge management General Computer Science Higher education business.industry Computer science 020206 networking & telecommunications 02 engineering and technology Popularity Structural equation modeling Empirical research 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering 020201 artificial intelligence & image processing Social media IBM business Inclusion (education) |
| Zdroj: | Journal of King Saud University - Computer and Information Sciences. 34:3722-3731 |
| ISSN: | 1319-1578 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jksuci.2020.12.007 |
| Popis: | Recently, Social Media (SM)’s adoption as educational instruments in Higher Education (HE) has been gaining popularity among researchers and practitioners. Nonetheless it has been adopted to support various learning approaches such as Cooperative Learning (CL). Despite the growing research in this field, few studies have proposed a comprehensive SM integration framework as well as empirical studies to evaluate its effectiveness. This paper examines how SM is being used as a pedagogical tool in HE and identifies major factors that drives SM’s inclusion in HE classrooms. In addition, the paper investigates the effectiveness of a previously proposed integration framework which was developed to promote CL using a popular SM platform, LinkedIn. A survey was administered to collect data from students in different subjects at a university in Australia. Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) was adopted for data analysis using IBM’s SPSS26 and AMOS26. One of the notable results of this study is the significant positive relation found between the use of the adopted integration framework and CL, SM challenges’ mitigation, students’ intention to use SM and their learning process. The findings of this study have important implications for practice and pave the way for future empirical studies. |
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