Title :
Social networks in higher education
Author :
Poulova, P. ; Simonova, I.
Author_Institution :
Fac. of Inf. & Manage., Univ. of Hradec Kralove, Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic
Abstract :
The paper focuses on social networking activities of university students from the Faculty of Informatics and Management, University of Hradec Kralove. Respondents´ preferences in using various social networks for se instructions were detected by the questionnaire described below, items 9-12. The results show strong preference of Facebook, Linkedin, Google+ and Twitter of them all, but in practice, reflecting the access rate, only Facebook could be used for education purposes.
Keywords :
computer aided instruction; educational institutions; social networking (online); Facebook; Google+; Linkedin; Twitter; higher education; social networks; university students; Electronic learning; Facebook; Informatics; LinkedIn; Mobile handsets;
Conference_Titel :
Emerging eLearning Technologies and Applications (ICETA), 2014 IEEE 12th International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-7739-0
DOI :
10.1109/ICETA.2014.7107625
