An Empirical Study of Online Social Networking for Enhancing University Students’ Learning

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raymond Lau
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
University Students ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Online Social Networking

scholarly journals An empirical study of lecturers’ appropriation of social technologies for higher education

2014 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Suraya Hamid ◽  
Jenny Waycott ◽  
Sherah Kurnia ◽  
Shanton Chang
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Knowledge Construction ◽  
Online Social Networking ◽  
Construction Process ◽  
Educational Activities ◽  
Teaching Activities ◽  
Social Technologies

<p>The use of Online Social Networking (OSN) educational activities has become commonplace in today’s higher education. OSN enables lecturers and students to generate and share content, interact, and collaborate in the knowledge construction process. The pedagogical benefits of social technologies have been widely discussed. However, less is known about the processes that lecturers follow when integrating social technologies into their teaching activities. With the aim of developing a practical guiding framework, this paper examines the processes that lecturers have followed when appropriating social technologies for learning purposes. Based on interviews with fourteen Australian lecturers and sixteen Malaysian lecturers who have used social technologies, different processes of appropriation are explored. Drawing on the empirical findings, this paper proposes a framework that can be used to guide lecturers in appropriating social technologies systematically. The framework will be beneficial for lecturers seeking guidance to support the appropriation of social technologies for structured and formal use in higher education.</p><br />

scholarly journals RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES & APPLICATIONS AND UNIVERSITY STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENT

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 1437-1445
Author(s):  
Syed Zubair Haider ◽  
Uzma Munawar ◽  
Hamida Bibi ◽  
Farooq Hussain ◽  
Abdul Wadood
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Academic Performance ◽  
Academic Success ◽  
University Students ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Online Social Networking ◽  
Attention Span ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose of the study: This study analysed the relationship between Online Social Networking websites and Applications (OSNSA) and university students' academic achievement. Methodology: In the present research, a quantitative research design was followed, and a survey research type of descriptive research was used in this study. Data were collected from 150 university students using a modified version of The Online Social Networking Sites scale (Paul, Baker, & Cochran, 2012). The correlation was calculated by using the SPSS 22nd version. Main Findings: The findings revealed a connection between students' time spent on OSNSA and their academic outcomes. The time spent on OSNSA was observed to be strongly influenced by the attention span of the students. In particular, we find that a lower academic output is provided by the greater time spent on OSNSA. Also, attention span was strongly associated with features that influence students' academic success, such as their perceptions of society's social networking outlook, their advantages, and disadvantages of OSNSA, use of OSNSA, etc. Applications of this study: Many students spend most of their hours on online networking pages, like Facebook, Tok-Tok, and WhatsApp, which are the most common, considering the harmful impact of social media. In certain eyes, social media has embedded a detrimental effect, but it is also used to acquire vital knowledge and social skills for pupils. Novelty/Originality of this study: This research is different from other studies because it explores the relationship between social networking sites & the application and academic performance of university students belonging from South Punjab by exploring various facets of OSNSA which ultimately promote university students’ academic performance.

scholarly journals Exploitation of Social Networking Sites and Its Impacts on Students’ Academic Results: A Quest for Correlation or Misspecification in Bangladesh

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-51
Author(s):  
Thawhidul Kabir ◽  
Shirin Akter ◽  
Zannatul Ferdus
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Random Sample ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Online Social Networking ◽  
Metropolitan City ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
Self Administered Questionnaire ◽  
Daily Time ◽  
Academic Results

Social networking sites have become the inevitable part of everyone’s life. Large numbers of students in Bangladesh spend a lion share of daily time by wandering through online social networking sites. So it is imperative to mention the effects of using social networking sites on the society. This study aims to analyse whether the use of social networking sites can influence students’ academic results or not. To get the desired answer, a random sample, constituted with 1182 university students from Dhaka Metropolitan City, Bangladesh, was drawn and surveyed with self-administered questionnaire. This study significantly found that, students achieved average results in last two semesters were inversely influenced by their hours of regular involvement in different social networking sites (SNSs), and also by the use of different mobile messaging applications (MMAs). Based on the finding, this study concludes that, students’ involvement in different SNSs and MMAs in terms of hours should be closely monitored to mitigate the aforesaid inverse effects. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/jbt.v9i1.22777 Journal of Business and Technology (Dhaka) Vol.9(1) 2014; 23-51

Cyberloafing in Learning Environments Where Online Social Networking Sites Are Used as Learning Tools: Antecedents and Consequences

2019 ◽  
Vol 58 (3) ◽  
pp. 539-569 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hatice Yildiz Durak
Keyword(s):  
Academic Success ◽  
University Students ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Hierarchical Regression ◽  
Online Social Networking

The objective of this study is to construct a model which explains and predicts the relations of university students’ cyberloafing behaviors with demographic and academic variables at computing courses where online social networking sites are utilized for education and is to review whether there is longitudinal effect on these relations in terms of learning experience. This group of the study is composed of 171 university students. In this study, self-description form, two different success tests, and various scales are utilized as data collection tools. For the analysis of the data, structural equation modeling and multiple hierarchical regression analysis are utilized. The results of this study indicate that variables of information technologies usage status, online learning activities usage status, academic self-efficacy, motivation, and cognitive absorption are predictable of cyberloafing behaviors at Time 2 point, and cyberloafing behavior predicts academic success and academic procrastination at Time 2 point. Although the relations between various study variables and cyberloafing are not meaningful at Time 1 point, it is an interesting finding that these relations are statistically meaningful at Time 2 point.

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