| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 231 pages) : illustrations (black and white) |
| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Contributors; 1 The Revolution That's Already Happening; Part 1 Transitions; 2 Challenges and Opportunities in Using Facebook to Build a Community for Students at a UK University; 3 "We Use Facebook Chat in Lectures of Course!" Exploring the Use of a Facebook Group by First-Year Undergraduate Students for Social and Academic Support; 4 Facebook as a Student Development Tool; Part 2 Facebook in Learning and Teaching; 5 Beyond Friending: Psychosocial Engagement on Facebook and its Implications for Academic Success |
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6 What's on Your Mind? Facebook as a Forum for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education7 Academic Armour: Social Etiquette, Social Media and Higher Education; 8 Exploring Facebook Groups' Potential as Teaching-Learning Environment for Supervision Purposes; Part 3 Facebook as a Learning Management System?; 9 How Social Should Learning Be? Facebook as a Learning Management System; 10 Facebook and Blackboard as Learning Management Systems: Case Study; 11 Rethinking Community? Facebook as a Learning Backchannel; Part 4 Facebook at College |
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12 Facebook at Uni: Mutual Surveillance and a Sense of Belonging13 Facebook, Student Engagement and the "Uni Coffee Shop" Group; 14 "I Think It's Mad Sometimes"-Unveiling Attitudes to Identity Creation and Network Building by Media Studies Students on Facebook; 15 Should We Be Friends? The Question of Facebook in Academic Libraries; Part 5 Boundaries and Privacy; 16 Unfriending Facebook? Challenges From an Educator's Perspective; 17 Role Confusion in Facebook Groups |
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18 Varying Cultural Conceptions of the Private Sphere and Their Impact on the Use of Social Media Networks as Educational Tools: A German and Chinese ComparisonPart 6 (Re)Configuring Facebook; 19 Changing Facebook's Architecture; 20 Facebook, Disability and Higher Education: Accessing the Digital Campus; Part 7 Conclusion-Beyond Facebook; 21 Facebook Fatigue? A University's Quest to Build Lifelong Relationships With Students and Alumni; 22 Understanding the Social Media Ecologies of Employees Within Higher Education Institutions: A UK-Based Case Study; Index |
| Summary |
An Education in Facebook? examines and critiques the role of Facebook in the evolving landscape of higher education. At times a mandated part of classroom use, at others an informal network for students, Facebook has become an inevitable component of college life, acting alternately as an advertising, recruitment and learning tool. But what happens when educators use a corporate product, which exists outside of the control of universities, to educate students?An Education in Facebook? provides a broad discussion of the issues educators are already facing on col |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Facebook (Electronic resource) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2007076967
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Facebook (Electronic resource) fast |
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Educational technology.
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Internet in higher education.
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Education, Higher -- Effect of technological innovations on.
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Social media.
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Social Media
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Educational Technology
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social media.
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EDUCATION -- Higher.
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Education, Higher -- Effect of technological innovations on
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Educational technology
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Internet in higher education
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Höheres Bildungswesen
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Hochschulunterricht
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Facebook
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Högskoleutbildning.
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Facebook.
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Sociala medier.
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Sociala nätverk.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Kent, Mike, 1969- editor
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Leaver, Tama, editor
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| ISBN |
9781134676088 |
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1134676085 |
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1306973430 |
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9781306973434 |
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9781315883458 |
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1315883457 |
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