Can digital technologies improve students' efficiency? Exploring the role of Virtual Learning Environment and Social Media use in Higher Education

E Lacka, TC Wong, MY Haddoud - Computers & Education, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Digital technologies, including Virtual Learning Environment (VL) and Social Media
(SM), are well adopted in the Higher Education (HE) setting, yet little is known about the role …

Understanding students' behavior in online social networks: a systematic literature review

MB Masrom, AH Busalim, H Abuhassna… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Springer
The use of online social networks (OSNs) has increasingly attracted attention from scholars'
in different disciplines. Recently, student behaviors in online social networks have been …

“Think globally, act locally”: A glocal approach to the development of social media literacy

S Manca, S Bocconi, B Gleason - Computers & Education, 2021 - Elsevier
Despite the documented number of studies that investigate social media in teaching and
learning settings, the topic of social media literacy is still an under-researched area. This …

Social media competence and digital citizenship among college students

S Xu, HH Yang, J MacLeod, S Zhu - Convergence, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
The global emergence of new media and social change have drawn attention to the topic of
digital citizenship. Previous literature has examined individuals' digital citizenship with some …

Assessing the pre-conditions for the pedagogical use of digital tools in the Nigerian higher education sector

IJ Orji, F Ojadi, UK Okwara - The International Journal of Management …, 2022 - Elsevier
Currently, there is a burgeoning interest in digitalization as evidenced in extant literature.
Nevertheless, the effect, based on teachers' own perspectives, of the pedagogical use of …

Digital and media competences: Key competences for EFL teachers

FJ Palacios Hidalgo, ME Gómez-Parra, C Huertas Abril - 2020 - ceeol.com
The usefulness of ICT in language learning is unquestionable nowadays. There are many
digital educational resources available for foreign and second language teachers, materials …

Investigating the relationship between information literacy and social media competence among university students

S Zhu, HH Yang, D Wu, F Chen - Journal of educational …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Although the current landscape in education emphasizes the importance of develo**
students' information literacy in formal education settings, little attention has been paid to …

How compulsive use of social media affects performance: insights from the UK by purpose of use

V Benson, C Hand, R Hartshorne - Behaviour & Information …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Positive outcomes of social networking use in both informal and non-educational settings
have attracted significant research attention. These benefits include social capital formation …

Understanding social media competence in higher education: Development and validation of an instrument

S Zhu, H Hao Yang, S Xu… - Journal of Educational …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
The rapid integration of social media into personal, professional, and educational settings
has catalyzed the need to assess social media competence. This study provides the …

Examination of digital citizenship, online information searching strategy and information literacy depending on changing state of experience in using digital …

Ü Avcı, H Yıldız Durak - Journal of Information Science, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
As educational processes are adapted to the online environment due to COVID-19
pandemic, digital citizenship and online information searching strategies came into …