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Roles of Social Media in Higher Education

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Roles of Social Media in Higher Education

   Added on 2021-02-21

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TASK 1 Compare and contrast the impact of the roles of social media on academic learning at the Highereducation especially at university level Learning is a process of acquiring new or modifying the present behaviour, skills,knowledge, preferences or values. Students uses various methods for learning different methodsand subjects. The learning process of humans starts with birth and ends with death. Nowadaysstudents uses different kind of social media sources while learning process(Kaplan, andHaenlein, 2016) . Social media is the web application which allow people to interact andconverse with each other and for creating, editing and sharing new form of visual, audio andtextual and for categorising labelling and recommending present form of content. Social media isinvolved in collection of various mobile services and internet services which connectsindividuals together for communicating, participating, collaboratively interacting, discussing andexchanging information and ideas and information on an online community. There are differentinternet services used by learners, students and instructors in higher institutions. Some of theseare described below - Weblog - These are branded blogs or weblogs which are easily created and updatedwebsites which allows different authors for publishing to internet. This helps instructors andstudents for communicating easily. Blog is defined as online journal and these are hosted for freeon websites such as Blogger, Tumblr, Word Press,, etc. Wikis –Wikis is collection of websites in which people modify and create web pages oninternet browsers. Editing and publishing of data is done by teachers and individuals on pageswhich have been already published. (Manca, and Ranieri, 2016). For instance, free encyclopediamake uses this technology. Social Bookmarking – Different bookmarking sites helps students to organise and sharelinks to websites. This helps people to produce a personalised internet. Some of the examples ofthese are Digg, Upon, Reddit, etc. Social network sites - These are the public web based services which helps people fordeveloping a personal profile, identifying other users who are connected to website, reading andreacting to postings made by other users on site. Such websites help users to construct a publicprofile with a bounded system for e.g. LinkedIn and Facebook.
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