The Role of Social Media in Dental Education

McAndrew, Maureen; Johnston, Amelia

doi:10.1002/j.0022-0337.2012.76.11.tb05409.x

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“…Other reasons included "no authentic information" and inability to ensure privacy at 33.3 % and 23.3% respectively. This finding is consistent with the finding reported by McAndrew & Johnston that indicated a positive impact of SNS on dental education by connecting people at different locations and eased dissemination of knowledge if it was governed by faculty to ensure the quality of information distributed [1,2].…”

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The Patterns of Usage and Perceived Impact of Social Networking Sites on Medical Students’ Education

2016

JNH

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Background: The use of Social Networking Sites (SNSs) is on the rise among today’s college students. Instructors are beginning to consider the possible significance and implications of social media for education practice and provision; making it a target for further research. Aims: To know the patterns of usage and the perceived positive and negative effects of SNSs on students’ education. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted at the University of Sharjah using the Quota sampling method to enroll first to third year students in the colleges of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmacy. Self-administered questionnaires were completed. Data was processed and analyzed using SPSS 22. Results: A total of 350 students (74% females and 26% males) participated in the study. YouTube ranked top as the SNS used most for educational purposes (52.7%), while Facebook was top choice for non-educational purposes (45.2%). Smartphones were most used to access SNSs (80.3%), which explains why 69.1% had SNSs always running on their devices. Videos (55.3%) and photos (24.3%) were the most preferred media for educational enhancement. Of our total sample, 92.2% thought that SNSs are helpful in studying mainly due to fast access to information (78.6%), easy communication (69.2%) and aiding colleague socialization (45%). Those who disagreed (8%) said that it wastes time (66.7%) and that the information is not always authentic (33.5%). Conclusion: Many students now depend greatly on SNSs to enhance their learning experience, as they believe that their positive effect on education overweights the negative. Thus, we suggest implementing SNSs in the educational process to a greater extent.

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The Patterns of Usage and Perceived Impact of Social Networking Sites on Medical Students’ Education

2016

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“…YouTube is a video sharing site, which allows users to view, post, and comment on digital media content at no cost. 1,2 There are also opportunities for private messaging and networking. This, as with many other forms of social media, is accessible on mobile and tablet devices.…”

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“…Social media, also known as 'Web 2.0' or 'social networking' 1,2 has been defined in many ways. General consensus from the literature states that social media is 'computer mediated' and enables people to exchange information.…”

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The risks and benefits of social media in dental foundation training

Bhola

Hellyer

2016

Br Dent J

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The use of social media has greatly expanded in the last decade, with widespread use of smartphones, the internet, and other multimedia to enhance learning. There is evidence to suggest that social media has a place in healthcare education, but there is limited research to suggest the effectiveness or use of it in dental foundation training. This paper discusses the risks and benefits of social media and suggests that a better understanding of social media and its role in the development and practice of newly qualified dental professionals could benefit both trainees and trainers.

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“…Web 2.0 websites depend on the collaborative idea of many content creators from different background to stimulate the new idea. It includes social media, such as LINE, Facebook, Twitter, You Tube, and interactive websites, such as blogs and wikis [16]. With the use of web 2.0 technology, it changed the style of learning into a Personal Learning Environment which allows a learner more active to configure and develop a learning environment that suitable with their preference [17].…”

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Social media as a new channel learning for higher education (A survey approach)

Oktavia

Prabowo

Meyliana

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2016 International Conference on ICT for Smart Society (ICISS)

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Social media are becoming popular channel for communication. The tremendous exposure of social media today has changed a new communication channel for all business process. Although it is for better support or worse, social media is very powerful because many organizations begin to initiate strategies and allocate resources to engage effectively with social media platform. Higher education as organizational learning is expected to concern with this situation because the orientation of education today exposed to students centered learning mechanism to provide them with a holistic learning experience. Social media was realized as an innovative and effective tool to provide innovative ways of involving and motivating students in the learning process. Therefore, there is a need to investigate how students perceive and use social media in providing a pedagogically virtual learning environment that could enhance their learning experience. To achieve the goals of infusing social media into traditional pedagogical approach, the research investigates the preferences channel of social media for collaborative learning in the context of higher education as educational platform. A descriptive survey method used in this evaluation to show the trend in higher education. The result clearly describes social media preferences in the community of higher education so that learners can be actively engaged with learning process and flexible environments for global communication sharing.

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The Role of Social Media in Dental Education

Cited by 76 publications

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The Patterns of Usage and Perceived Impact of Social Networking Sites on Medical Students’ Education

The Patterns of Usage and Perceived Impact of Social Networking Sites on Medical Students’ Education

The risks and benefits of social media in dental foundation training

Social media as a new channel learning for higher education (A survey approach)

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