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With the rapid adoption of smartphones, Twitter has become a major mobile SNS. In spite of the increasing use of Twitter services by students and instructors in colleges, very little empirical studies that concern the impact of social media on the student learning environment have been published. In this paper, a Twitter utilization experiment is conducted for college classes to understand the effects on college student engagement and grades. The participants of experimental study comprise students of 2 college classes during one semester and only voluntary students attend this Twitter-based experiment. Network of Twitter using pattern such as community building, collaboration relationship and information sharing among students are analyzed. Some results about the relationships of seat positions, following patterns and grades among students have been studied. Through understanding of the student’s netwoking pattern, we find that the possibility of Twitter as a mobile educational tool.
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Ha, I., Jung, J.J., Kim, C. (2013). Influence of Twitter Activity on College Classes. In: Bǎdicǎ, C., Nguyen, N.T., Brezovan, M. (eds) Computational Collective Intelligence. Technologies and Applications. ICCCI 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8083. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40495-5_61
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