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Increasing Student Engagement and Retention Using Social Technologies: Facebook, E-Portfolios and Other Social Networking Services
Laura A. Wankel
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Paperback. Uses case studies, surveys, and literature reviews to examine how these social media technologies are being used to improve writing and publishing skills in students, create engaging communities of practice. This volume discusses a framework for deploying and assessing these technologies in higher education institutions. Editor(s): Wankel, Laura A.; Blessinger, Patrick. Series Editor(s): Wankel, Charles. Series: Cutting-Edge Technologies in Higher Education. Num Pages: 250 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JNM; JNT; JNV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 462.
Increasing Student Engagement and Retention using Social Technologies: Facebook, e-portfolios and other Social Networking Services uses case studies, surveys, and literature reviews to examine how these social media technologies are being used to improve writing and publishing skills in students, create engaging communities of practice, and how these tools are being used for e-Mentoring and constructing online reputations. Chapters include applying positive psychology and cognitive styles in user design, designing outcome based curricula using student personality types, engaging second language students through electronic writing tasks, applying psychological variables on the academic use of social media, using social media to ... Read more
Increasing Student Engagement and Retention using Social Technologies: Facebook, e-portfolios and other Social Networking Services uses case studies, surveys, and literature reviews to examine how these social media technologies are being used to improve writing and publishing skills in students, create engaging communities of practice, and how these tools are being used for e-Mentoring and constructing online reputations. Chapters include applying positive psychology and cognitive styles in user design, designing outcome based curricula using student personality types, engaging second language students through electronic writing tasks, applying psychological variables on the academic use of social media, using social media to ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Emerald Publishing Limited United Kingdom
Number of pages
250
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Series
Cutting-Edge Technologies in Higher Education
Condition
New
Number of Pages
250
Place of Publication
Bingley, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781902387
SKU
V9781781902387
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