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dc.contributor.authorKivunja, Charlesen
dc.date.accessioned2015-10-02T15:37:00Z-
dc.date.issued2015-
dc.identifier.citationInternational Journal of Higher Education, 4(4), p. 33-44en
dc.identifier.issn1927-6052en
dc.identifier.issn1927-6044en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/17959-
dc.description.abstractEfficacy of a teaching strategy technically refers to the ability of that strategy to produce a desired or intended learning outcomes. To date, there is little information on the efficacy of social media technologies in academia and it is likely to be some time before their effectiveness is proven. It is therefore legitimate to ask the question, is their use in education a pedagogical bliss or merely a digital fad? To answer this question, this paper reports the current results of a study being conducted at a University in Australia to investigate the efficacy of using Google Circles Learning Communities (GCLC) social media technologies to facilitate teaching, learning, assessing and curriculum development for 2nd year, Bachelor of Education students in a pre-service teacher training award. The digital structures for the study were set up in the 1st trimester of 2015 with a small cohort of only 35 students. Those structures were then used in the 2nd trimester to conduct a formal research study involving a much larger cohort of 106 students. As the research is still ongoing, finalized results are yet to be obtained. The results reported here are drawn from the findings in the data gathered over the first five weeks of trimester 2 relating to the use of cutting-edge social media technologies to help students engage with and develop the Super 4Cs skills of the 21st century, namely Critical thinking, Collaboration, Creativity and Communication. The results indicate that while there is some anxiety among students about using social media technologies for academic work, there is a willingness to have a go. The data also provide evidence that students are keen to engage with the Super 4Cs of the 21st century, and that the use of social media technologies gives them an opportunity to do so. In particular the data provide evidence that the use of these technologies has potential to bridge gaps between internal and external students.en
dc.languageenen
dc.publisherSciedu Pressen
dc.relation.ispartofInternational Journal of Higher Educationen
dc.titleThe Efficacy of Social Media Technologies in Academia: A Pedagogical Bliss or Digital Fad?en
dc.typeJournal Articleen
dc.identifier.doi10.5430/ijhe.v4n4p33en
dcterms.accessRightsGolden
dc.subject.keywordsCurriculum and Pedagogy Theory and Developmenten
dc.subject.keywordsHumanities and Social Sciences Curriculum and Pedagogy (excl Economics, Business and Management)en
dc.subject.keywordsScience, Technology and Engineering Curriculum and Pedagogyen
local.contributor.firstnameCharlesen
local.subject.for2008130202 Curriculum and Pedagogy Theory and Developmenten
local.subject.for2008130205 Humanities and Social Sciences Curriculum and Pedagogy (excl Economics, Business and Management)en
local.subject.for2008130212 Science, Technology and Engineering Curriculum and Pedagogyen
local.subject.seo2008930102 Learner and Learning Processesen
local.subject.seo2008930101 Learner and Learning Achievementen
local.subject.seo2008930103 Learner Developmenten
local.profile.schoolSchool of Educationen
local.profile.emailckivunja@une.edu.auen
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local.record.placeauen
local.record.institutionUniversity of New Englanden
local.identifier.epublicationsrecordune-20150909-225424en
local.publisher.placeCanadaen
local.format.startpage33en
local.format.endpage44en
local.peerreviewedYesen
local.identifier.volume4en
local.identifier.issue4en
local.title.subtitleA Pedagogical Bliss or Digital Fad?en
local.access.fulltextYesen
local.contributor.lastnameKivunjaen
dc.identifier.staffune-id:ckivunjaen
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local.identifier.unepublicationidune:18169en
dc.identifier.academiclevelAcademicen
local.title.maintitleThe Efficacy of Social Media Technologies in Academiaen
local.output.categorydescriptionC1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journalen
local.search.authorKivunja, Charlesen
local.uneassociationUnknownen
local.year.published2015en
local.subject.for2020390102 Curriculum and pedagogy theory and developmenten
local.subject.seo2020160101 Early childhood educationen
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