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Key success factors of using social media as a learning tool

Research Output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding Chapter Peer-review

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Abstract

Students are dedicated and innovative users of Social Media; in the context of Higher Education they use such media in a pragmatic fashion to enhance their learning. Higher Education institutions are thus in a position to facilitate their students’ learning by embedding Social Media in their teaching and learning pedagogy. This chapter will discuss the Key Success Factors of using Social Media as a coordinating, managing, and learning tool to enhance students’ education in the context of Higher Education. The Key Success Factors are mapped along the communication and activity flows of the student’s study enterprise as viewed from an Actor-Network Theory lenses.

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Output type

Research Output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding Chapter Peer-review

Original language

English

Pages from-to (Number of pages)

Pages 267-282

Publication milestones

  • Published - 01/10/2017

Publication status

Published - 01/10/2017

Place of publication

Netherlands

Publisher

IGI Global Scientific Publishing, United States

ISBN (Print)

9781522505594

ISBN (Electronic)

9781522505600

Chapter Number

15

External Publication IDs

  • handle.net: 10547/622268
  • Scopus: 85016641996

Host publication title

Analyzing the strategic role of social networking in firm growth and productivity

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