This study assessed the degree of learning experiences, the extent of social media use, and their relationship. It involved 500 first-year IT students considered part of Generation Z as respondents enrolled in a state university in Central Luzon, Philippines. Utilizing the quantitative research method, the researcher employed a…

This study focuses on the step-to-step procedure in creating Facebook Social Learning Group (FBSLG) and the perception of students on using FBSLG as learning management tool. Descriptive method was employed in this study participated by two hundred eighty (280) teacher education students in Nueva Ecija University of Science and Technology--College…

Although the use of social networks, especially Facebook, has become a common practice among educational communities in Egypt, studies have yet to explore the online practices of in-service (language) teachers as part of Continuing Professional Development (hereafter CPD). Therefore, this study investigated English language teachers' informal…

Social Networking (SN) gives freedom to socialize, report, create, choose, and share user-generated content and news. SN has become subject of researches in social sciences, however the current status of researches involving education and SN is largely one way serving educational interests and there is negligence of the role of education in…

Social networking sites (SNSs) are Web-based platforms on which individuals connect with other users to generate and maintain social connections. Considerable disagreement exists as to associations that SNS use may have with depression. The present study was conducted to explore the influence of Usage of Social Networking Sites and Depression…

Introduction: Gen Z has started to enter the portals of nursing classrooms. They are technology and socially-savvy consumers who grew up in the world of internet and smartphones. However, little is known about this generation, particularly among nursing students and how they use Facebook for academic purposes. The purpose of this study was to…

The present study was conducted to explore the influence of Usage of Social Networking Sites and Stress among PG students of Central University of Punjab. The objectives of the study were to find out the level of Usage of Social Networking Sites and Stress, relationship of Usage of Social Networking Sites and Stress among Male, Female and Science,…

Project-based learning is a key methodology for the 21st century classroom. The teaching pedagogy is grounded in collaborative learning for students and collaborative teaching practices for educators. When social media and digital technologies are used as aids in the project-based learning approach, it adds a new dimension of learning for students…

The purpose of this research is to analyze the relationship between cyberbullying sensibility and cyber victimization levels of Anatolian high school students. The correlational research model was used in this study. The population of the study consists of 2013-2014 education year and 1917 Anatolian high school students in Hendek, Sakarya and 439…

An English teacher uses Skype to connect his high school students in an Indian village with international teachers to help them interact and converse with them in English. Each international teacher interacts with the students in English once for 40 minutes. The teacher does that daily, and each day an international guest teacher is from a…

An English teacher uses Skype to connect his high school students in an Indian village with international teachers to help them interact and converse with them in English. Each international teacher interacts with the students in English once for 40 minutes. The teacher does that daily, and each day an international guest teacher is from a…

This study aimed to determine the use of social networks in educational environments from a student' s perspective, for which 57 students at Kastamonu University, Kastamonu Vocational School, Department of Nursing and Care Services, Child Development Programme and taking Educational Tools and Development course were interrogated. The students were…

Communication, the flow of ideas and information between individuals in a social context, is the heart of educational experience. Constructivism and constructivist theories form the foundation for the collaborative learning processes of creating and sharing meaning in online educational contexts. The Learning and Collaboration in…

This study investigated how English learners at a university in Japan perceive connections with students in the US through an educational social network platform, called Edmodo. The instructor of English at the Japanese university cooperated with a Japanese language instructor at an American university and they incorporated Edmodo into their…

The changing online learning environment requires that instructors depend less on the standard tools built into most educational learning platforms and turn their focus to use of Open Educational Resources (OERs) and free or low-cost commercial applications. These applications permit new and more efficient ways to build online learning communities…