Social Media And The New Academic Environment Pedagogical Challenges

Download or read book Social Media and the New Academic Environment: Pedagogical Challenges written by P?tru?, Bogdan and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2013-01-31 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As web applications play a vital role in our society, social media has emerged as an important tool in the creation and exchange of user-generated content and social interaction. The benefits of these services have entered in the educational areas to become new means by which scholars communicate, collaborate, and teach. Social Media and the New Academic Environment: Pedagogical Challenges provides relevant theoretical frameworks and the latest research on social media and its challenges in the educational context. This book is essential for professionals aiming to improve their understanding of social media at different levels of education, as well as researchers in the fields of e-learning, educational science, information and communication sciences, and much more.