Social media adoption in higher education: A case study of Universiti Utara Malaysia
The use of social media within higher learning institute has resulted positive impacts on students engagement in teaching and learning activities.Current studies have acknowledged the importance of social media as one of the facilitating tools that promotes active participation's among students...
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| author | Hashim, Kamarul Faizal Zamani, Muhammad Afif |
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| description | The use of social media within higher learning institute has resulted positive impacts on students engagement in teaching and learning activities.Current studies have acknowledged the importance of social media as one of the facilitating tools that promotes active participation's among students.Although higher learning institution is introduce to new innovation, but when it comes to adopting they are always considered as late adopter.Thus, these studies examine the level of social media usage among lecturers for teaching purposes.Besides that, this study also examines the motives and barriers that hinder lecturers from using social media for teaching purposes.This study adopts a quantitative research method approach.The finding of this research found that 70% of UUM lecturers used social media for teaching purposes and most of them are categorized as early adopters. |
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| spelling | uum-221652017-06-05T01:53:52Z https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/22165/ Social media adoption in higher education: A case study of Universiti Utara Malaysia Hashim, Kamarul Faizal Zamani, Muhammad Afif LB2300 Higher Education The use of social media within higher learning institute has resulted positive impacts on students engagement in teaching and learning activities.Current studies have acknowledged the importance of social media as one of the facilitating tools that promotes active participation's among students.Although higher learning institution is introduce to new innovation, but when it comes to adopting they are always considered as late adopter.Thus, these studies examine the level of social media usage among lecturers for teaching purposes.Besides that, this study also examines the motives and barriers that hinder lecturers from using social media for teaching purposes.This study adopts a quantitative research method approach.The finding of this research found that 70% of UUM lecturers used social media for teaching purposes and most of them are categorized as early adopters. UTM Press 2015 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/22165/1/JT%2077%204%20%202015%20%2033%E2%80%9339.pdf Hashim, Kamarul Faizal and Zamani, Muhammad Afif (2015) Social media adoption in higher education: A case study of Universiti Utara Malaysia. Jurnal Teknologi, 77 (4). pp. 33-39. ISSN 2180-3722 http://www.jurnalteknologi.utm.my/index.php/jurnalteknologi/article/view/6040 |
| spellingShingle | LB2300 Higher Education Hashim, Kamarul Faizal Zamani, Muhammad Afif Social media adoption in higher education: A case study of Universiti Utara Malaysia |
| title | Social media adoption in higher education: A case study of Universiti Utara Malaysia |
| title_full | Social media adoption in higher education: A case study of Universiti Utara Malaysia |
| title_fullStr | Social media adoption in higher education: A case study of Universiti Utara Malaysia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Social media adoption in higher education: A case study of Universiti Utara Malaysia |
| title_short | Social media adoption in higher education: A case study of Universiti Utara Malaysia |
| title_sort | social media adoption in higher education a case study of universiti utara malaysia |
| topic | LB2300 Higher Education |
| url | https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/22165/1/JT%2077%204%20%202015%20%2033%E2%80%9339.pdf |
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