Evaluating the Quality of Social Media in an Educational Context

dc.creator	Kirsi Silius
dc.creator	Meri Kailanto
dc.creator	Anne-Maritta Tervakari
dc.date	2011-09-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-20T22:06:09Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-20T22:06:09Z
dc.identifier	10.3991/ijet.v6i3.1732
dc.identifier	1863-0383
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/fa8f756bfc494578bda01ce01f761f73
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/10306
dc.identifier.uri	https://doaj.org/article/fa8f756bfc494578bda01ce01f761f73
dc.description	Social media enhanced learning systems bring new challenges to evaluate learning environments. Many features are common with any web-based services and can be evaluated with common criteria. But with social media services users can also contribute content, change opinions and create communities for different needs, which bring new dimensions to a quality evaluation. This research focused on finding out which are the most important characters and functions in social media enhanced learning system in the context of higher education. The paper also reports the former research results that were used as a background for this study. Earlier researches were carried out in 2008-2009 and they focused on how to evaluate social media services, what are the students’ expectations and what motivates them to use social media services in higher educational context.
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	kassel university press GmbH
dc.relation	http://online-journals.org/i-jet/article/view/1732
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1863-0383
dc.rights	CC BY
dc.source	International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET), Vol 6, Iss 3, Pp 21-27 (2011)
dc.subject	social
dc.subject	media
dc.subject	service
dc.subject	higher
dc.subject	education
dc.subject	educational
dc.subject	technology
dc.subject	quality
dc.subject	evaluation
dc.subject	web-based
dc.subject	service
dc.subject	Technology (General)
dc.subject	T1-995
dc.subject	Technology
dc.subject	T
dc.subject	DOAJ:Technology (General)
dc.subject	DOAJ:Technology and Engineering
dc.subject	Theory and practice of education
dc.subject	LB5-3640
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Technology (General)
dc.subject	T1-995
dc.subject	Technology
dc.subject	T
dc.subject	DOAJ:Technology (General)
dc.subject	DOAJ:Technology and Engineering
dc.subject	Theory and practice of education
dc.subject	LB5-3640
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Technology (General)
dc.subject	T1-995
dc.subject	Technology
dc.subject	T
dc.subject	Theory and practice of education
dc.subject	LB5-3640
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Technology (General)
dc.subject	T1-995
dc.subject	Technology
dc.subject	T
dc.subject	Theory and practice of education
dc.subject	LB5-3640
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Technology (General)
dc.subject	T1-995
dc.subject	Technology
dc.subject	T
dc.subject	Theory and practice of education
dc.subject	LB5-3640
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.title	Evaluating the Quality of Social Media in an Educational Context
dc.type	Article