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    Author(s)
    Jenkins, Greg
    Lyons, Kenneth
    Bridgstock, Ruth S
    Carr, Lauren
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    Bridgstock, Ruth S.
    Year published
    2012
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    Abstract
    Facebook is approaching ubiquity in the social habits and practice of many students. However, its use in higher education has been criticised (Maranto & Barton, 2010) because it can remove or blur academic boundaries. Despite these concerns, there is strong potential to use Facebook to support new students to communicate and interact with each other (Cheung, Chiu, & Lee, 2010). This paper shows how Facebook can be used by teaching staff to communicate more effectively with students. Further, it shows how it can provide a way to represent and include beginning students’ thoughts, opinions and feedback as an element of the ...
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    Facebook is approaching ubiquity in the social habits and practice of many students. However, its use in higher education has been criticised (Maranto & Barton, 2010) because it can remove or blur academic boundaries. Despite these concerns, there is strong potential to use Facebook to support new students to communicate and interact with each other (Cheung, Chiu, & Lee, 2010). This paper shows how Facebook can be used by teaching staff to communicate more effectively with students. Further, it shows how it can provide a way to represent and include beginning students’ thoughts, opinions and feedback as an element of the learning design and responsive feed-forward into lectures and tutorial activities. We demonstrate how an embedded social media strategy can be used to complement and enhance the first year curriculum experience by functioning as a transition device for student support and activating Kift’s (2009) organising principles for first year curriculum design.
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    Journal Title
    International Journal of the First Year in Higher Education
    Volume
    3
    Issue
    2
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.5204/intjfyhe.v3i2.131
    Copyright Statement
    © The Author(s) 2012. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Austria (CC BY 3.0 AT) License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/at/deed.en_GB), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
    Subject
    Education systems
    Higher education
    Curriculum and pedagogy
    Specialist studies in education
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/376560
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