Gaining competence through social media

Competence advancement supported by social media

People regularly need to cope with new challenging situations that cannot be mastered by only applying routine procedural skills and knowledge. Independently updating one’s set of skills and knowledge base in the context of technologically rich environments is essential to meet the changing lifeand workplace requirements. This paper proposes the creation and maintenance of landscapes of network...

Gaining insights from social media language: Methodologies and challenges.

Language data available through social media provide opportunities to study people at an unprecedented scale. However, little guidance is available to psychologists who want to enter this area of research. Drawing on tools and techniques developed in natural language processing, we first introduce psychologists to social media language research, identifying descriptive and predictive analyses t...

The Non-Cartesian Way: Developing Media Competence through Media Production

Based on the seamless learning approach (Wong, 2012), this paper illustrates how media competence can be developed, what didactic design is necessary, and what features this design possesses for teaching media competence at university. The ‘Natural History Museum Berlin project’ is considered as an example of this. In this project, during the 2009 summer term, students at the Carl von Ossietzky...

Improving social competence through character education.

Character education is supposed to meet early adolescents' need (i.e., eighth and ninth graders) for strengthening social competence. Moreover, adolescents' engagement in character education is integral to their learning from the education. The engagement and deficit in social competence are therefore plausible conditions for the effectiveness of character education in promoting social competen...

Enhancing Social TV through Social Media Mining