DocumentCode :
240669
Title :
Social Media for Academics: Motivation Killer or Booster?
Author :
Celik, Ilknur ; Akilli, Goknur Kaplan ; Onuk, Tayfun Can
Author_Institution :
METU Northern Cyprus Campus, Guzelyurt, Cyprus
fYear :
2014
fDate :
7-10 July 2014
Firstpage :
480
Lastpage :
482
Abstract :
In this paper, we present a study of exploring academics´ current practices and perceptions towards social media, and its potential educational use in higher education. With the growing popularity of social media, many studies have focused on the needs, motivation, opinions and experiences of the students. However further research is needed to investigate the social media adoption in education from educators´ standpoint. The study investigates current tendencies, beliefs and opinions of the academics as regards to social media from emotional and motivational perspectives in a threefold, personal, professional and educational. An extensive questionnaire was developed and administrated to faculty members. Our research is motivated by the idea of the utmost importance of determining the academics´ perceptions of social media in order to form the foundation on which strategies about how to best utilize it in higher education can be shaped. The range of perceptions evidenced from the participants are essential to context-based understanding of its potential and shed light on problems and issues that need to be tackled for potential use of social media in education.
Keywords :
computer aided instruction; further education; social aspects of automation; social networking (online); emotional perspectives; higher education; motivation booster; motivation killer; motivational perspectives; social media; Computers; Educational institutions; Electronic mail; Media; Privacy; Productivity; academic perceptions; digital natives; emotion; motivation; social media; technology enhanced learning;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT), 2014 IEEE 14th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Athens
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/ICALT.2014.142
Filename :
6901517
Link To Document :
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