Getting Started with Social Networking

Scholarly Resources

For a little more information on the value, applicability, generalizability, and difficulties in the design of controlled experiment, see the following:

• Personal Learning Environments, social media, and self-regulated learning: A natural formula for connecting formal and informal learning, by Nada Dabbagha and Anastasia Kitsantas of George Mason University
• Teaching, Learning, and Sharing: How Today’s Higher Education Faculty Use Social Media by Mike Moran, Jeff Seaman, and Hester Tinti-Kane of the Babson Survey Research Group
• Investigating instructional strategies for using social media in formal and informal learning by Baiyun Chen and Thomas Chen of the University of Central Florida
• Social media and education: reconceptualizing the boundaries of formal and informal learning by Christine Greenhow of Michigan State University and Cathy Lewin of Manchester Metropolitan University
• Mobile computing devices in higher education: Student perspectives on learning with cellphones, smartphones & social media by Joanne Gikas and Michael M. Grant of the University of Memphis