Social media and education

Social Media and Microbiology Education

Social media consists of Internet technologies that allow users to create and share content, and to foster dialogues among other users. Examples include software applications for communication (blogging, social networking, discussion forums), collaboration (wikis, social bookmarking), and multimedia (sharing photographs, video, and livecasting). In the world of science, social media is becoming...

Integrating Social Media in Education

In their article "Integrating Social Media in Education" Hadewijch Vanwynsberghe and Pieter Verdegem propose a framework in order to integrate social media literacy in an educational setting. In today's networked society students are new media users and hence the relevance in curricula to include social media literacy. Vanwynsberghe and Verdegem propose a multidimensional conceptual framework o...

Social Media Retrieval for Music Education

Advances in content-based multimedia analysis, recommender systems and Web-based social platforms for content and metadata sharing provide opportunities to create novel applications for music education. In this paper we describe a framework for intelligent music tutoring systems, through the combined use of content and context-based approaches. First, we investigate traditional computer-assiste...

Advancing social media in medical education.

Social Media Analysis for Higher Education

The educational system involves a complex set of actors, including learners, parents, teachers, and administrators. However, we now have more data than ever to analyze this system, which could result in a quick understanding and evaluation of public policies in this complex policy area. This paper explores a new area of data about the educational experience, namely social media data. This paper...