Social media usage by higher education academics: A scoping review of the literature

Chugh, Ritesh; Grose, Robert; Macht, Stephanie

doi:10.1007/s10639-020-10288-z

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“…There are several indications that EFL teachers from both countries aim to introduce new pedagogical practices in the post-Covid situation. For instance, they reported that they might use social media to contact their students and use quiz-based tests, more online materials, blended learning courses, both online and offline activities and flipped approaches to teaching, contrasting Chugh et al ( 2021 )’s findings that teachers do not use social media for teaching due to a lack of awareness, skill and confidence.…”

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Preparations for and practices of online education during the Covid-19 pandemic: A study of Bangladesh and Nepal

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Online education has been adopted widely to address the educational chaos created by the Covid-19 pandemic. Reports on its constraints and challenges appear daily in the global media. However, accounts of teachers’ and students’ experiences of this abrupt shift in pedagogical modality are conspicuously absent in the available literature. This article reports the findings of a study that explored teachers’ and students’ experiences of online education during the pandemic in the context of higher education in Bangladesh and Nepal. The online survey with 147 students and 76 teachers and interviews with a sub-sample of 17 participants indicate that they adapt the action potentials of the digital artifacts to local contexts and use them in the best possible ways to facilitate their communication and enhance student learning in difficult circumstances. The major challenges and constraints they experience in transitioning to online education include poor network, lack of digital skills, lack of technological support from institutions among others. The study findings indicate some pressing policy, pedagogical and research implications, which are discussed in the final section.

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“…Also, some reviews have covered only particular SNSs, such as Twitter [8] and Facebook [9]. In addition, there are reviews which have only summarised relevant studies [7,19], or provided a general narrative on the use of social media in higher education [6,20]. This paper aims to supplement the existing reviews in this area and address their limitations.…”

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“…Despite the many studies which have examined the effective use and limitations of social media for educational purposes, their findings have yet to be comprehensively reviewed and summarised. Relevant reviews have only provided an overview of the developments [6,7], or focused on a specific discipline [8] or SNS [9]. This paper aims to review the studies on the use of social media in higher education institutions, and identify the opportunities and challenges reported in the studies.…”

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The Opportunities and Challenges of Social Media in Higher Education: A Literature Review

Wong

2021

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This paper presents a review of the use of social media for learning and teaching in higher education, as well as the opportunities and challenges revealed from its use. A total of 77 related case studies published from 2010 to 2019 were collected from Scopus and Google Scholar for analysis. The results showed that social media was usually used as a learning management system and for enhancing learner engagement. The use of social media has brought opportunities for educational practices in terms of its high popularity among students, and its capacity to support two-way communication, easy knowledge sharing, community building, and collaborative learning, which enhance student learning experience. The challenges reported in the case studies cover the blurring of the boundary between the public and private life of students and between the relationships of students and instructors, as well as its doubtful effectiveness for knowledge construction, the inadequacy of instructors' pedagogical and technological skills, and the lack of integration with instructional design. The results suggest the need for further work on examining suitable ways of using social media which would be viewed positively and accepted by users. There should also be future work on surveying the need for support for instructors for their involvement in teaching with social media, and developing effective pedagogies which cope with the features of social media.

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“…In the education framework, the evidence supports the potential broader and promising use of social media in higher education. Social media has been recognized to provide clear benefits for career development, research, and teaching, including improved communication with various interested parties, increased opportunities and contacts, and increased student learning and satisfaction ( Chugh et al., 2021 ). Positive impacts of the use of social media have also been revealed regarding (a) learning processes (support, educational processes, improved communication and collaboration, academic performance) for both students and educators; (b) users' personality profile and learning style; (c) online learning platforms (learning management systems (LMSs); and (d) higher education in general ( Zachos et al., 2018 ).…”

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“…This perspective has high value, since teachers and higher education institutions currently have not yet fully exploited online social networks to support their activities ( Zachos et al., 2018 ). In this sense, the pedagogical possibilities of social media have still been only partially applied ( Manca, 2020 ), and many academics still do not use social media for teaching due mostly to lack of awareness, skill and confidence in using this emerging technology ( Chugh et al., 2021 ).…”

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Measuring the association between students’ exposure to social media and their valuation of sustainability in entrepreneurship

Barrera-Verdugo

Villarroel

2021

Heliyon

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Currently, university students can read content from various social media sites; however, little is known about the relationship between students' social media exposure and their valuation of sustainability in entrepreneurship and of environmental and social care as drivers of new venture creation. This research seeks to reduce this knowledge gap, evaluating discrepancies among undergraduates according to the intensity of their social media use. An online survey was applied to compare students’ perceptions based on their reading of Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and YouTube. A total of 143 valid responses of students in business and engineering careers in Chile were analysed using the Mann-Whitney test, showing a difference in the perceptions of undergraduates who read social media content once a day or more. The results show that a higher frequency of reading such content is related to higher perceived relevance of environmental sustainability, social welfare, and fair trade; likewise, it is linked with less perceived importance of sustainability as a driver of entrepreneurship. This evidence is relevant in recognizing the potential of social media sites to strengthen the higher education in sustainable entrepreneurship because these channels can be incorporated as a formal source of information for learning and its use is still limited. Future research should explore what specific types of content have the most significant impact on perceptions of sustainable entrepreneurship and promote particular methods for their application in this area.

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Social media usage by higher education academics: A scoping review of the literature

Cited by 70 publications

References 32 publications

Preparations for and practices of online education during the Covid-19 pandemic: A study of Bangladesh and Nepal

Preparations for and practices of online education during the Covid-19 pandemic: A study of Bangladesh and Nepal

The Opportunities and Challenges of Social Media in Higher Education: A Literature Review

Measuring the association between students’ exposure to social media and their valuation of sustainability in entrepreneurship

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