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Title:
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USING MICROBLOGGING (TWEETS) IN HIGHER EDUCATION: NEW OPPORTUNITIES FOR BLENDED LEARNING |
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Author(s):
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Thomas Menkhoff, Magnus Lars Bengtsson |
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ISBN:
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978-972-8939-38-0 |
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Editors:
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Miguel Baptista Nunes and Pedro Isaías |
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Year:
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2011 |
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Edition:
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Volume II |
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Keywords:
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Micro-blogging, higher education, blended learning, Singapore |
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Type:
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Reflection Paper |
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First Page:
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323 |
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Last Page:
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326 |
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Language:
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English |
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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During lecture time students often do not dare to ask questions and/or to reveal their ignorance or confusion. This paper showcases a simple yet powerful and competency-enhancing social networking application which provides a solution for this dilemma in the context of blended learning: tweeting. Twitters micro-blogging service enables both instructors and students to send and read messages (tweets) of up to 140 characters. As Twitter can be accessed from a website, via applications on PC/Mac, Iphone, Android phones etc., pedagogical tweeting represents an effective tool for instructors to find out, in a non-threatening way, what students are thinking while they are in the classroom aimed at making learning more meaningful, fun and effective. In this paper, the authors share respective tweeting experiences made during a course on Knowledge Management taught at the Singapore Management University (SMU) in Singapore, outline future research implications and discuss challenges ahead. |
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