USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA BY ACADEMICIANS

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USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA BY ACADEMICIANS Hüseyin Odabaş Assoc. Prof., Atatürk University, Department of Information Management, Türkiye

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USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA BY ACADEMICIANS. Hüseyin Odabaş Assoc . Prof., Atatürk University , Department of Information Management, Türkiye. The Plan. Introduction and Basic Concepts Social Media Social Media in Education Aims, Hypothesis and Method Findings and Discussions - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA BY ACADEMICIANS

Hüseyin Odabaş

Assoc. Prof., Atatürk University, Department of Information Management, Türkiye

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The PlanIntroduction and Basic Concepts

Social MediaSocial Media in Education

Aims, Hypothesis and MethodFindings and Discussions

a. General Evaluation b. Sample Evaluation

Conclusion

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Social Media in Education

-- a vital element in education-- social media give chance to share learning materials-- a kind of ideal tool which can provide equity for opportunity in education

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Aims, Hypothesis and MethodMain aims:-- Describing the social media awareness levels of both academicians and students,-- finding out the attitudes of this group related to the use of social media in the education.

Sub aims:1. What is the level of social media use in education among academicians?2. What are the expectations of students from academicians in terms of educational quality and what is the place and role of social media in these demands?

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Aims, Hypothesis and Method

The hypotheses:

- Among the academicians, the use of social media with educational purpose is accepted as pointless,- Among the academicians the level of social media use with educational purpose is in low level,- Students see social media as a useful tool in the area education,- Students find the level of their lecturer’s social media use in their educational practices insufficient.

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Aims, Hypothesis and Method  Frequency

NPercentage

%Social Status    

Academician 113 42,5Student 153 57,5

Gender     Women 99 37,2

Men 164 61,7No answer 3 1,1

Area of Education    Social Sciences 110 41,4Natural and Engineering Sciences 117 44,0Medicine and Health Sciences 25 9,4Sports Sciences 2 0,8No answer 12 4,5

Age    Academician    

Lower age group (23-35) 56 49,6Upper age group (36-57) 55 48,7No answer 2 1,8

Student    Lower age group (18-21 74 48,4Upper age group (22-32) 73 47,7No answer 6 3,9

Total 266 100

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Findings and Discussions

-- Likert type of questions are used in order to get two groups of data (Academicians and Students).

-- The first group of questions was asked to find out the participants’ attitudes and behavior towards to the social media as a whole.

-- The second group of questions is about to the most preferred social media applications of the participants and their evaluations related to these applications.

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General Evaluation

Academician Student N % N % I find social media very useful in terms of sharing course materials with students.

I agree 68 60,2 76 49,7 I do not agree 19 16,8 52 34,0 I have no idea 4 3,5 4 2,6

I believe that in addition to the traditional teaching techniques social media makes educational practices more attractive

I agree 81 71,7 88 58,3 I do not agree 15 13,3 34 22,5 I have no idea 2 1,8 2 1,3

It is not difficult to be experienced user in social media.

I agree 82 72,6 82 53,9 I do not agree 15 13,3 34 22,4 I have no idea 5 4,4 5 3,3

I find myself perfect and sufficient to use social media

I agree 52 46,0 89 59,3 I do not agree 25 22,1 30 20,0 I have no idea 0 0 3 2,0

Table 2: Efficacy of Social Media and Social Media Use

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General Evaluation

Table 3: Social Media Success

I agr

ee (%

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I do

not a

gree

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I hav

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idea

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Academicians -- By using social media I have the opportunity to support students’ homework and projects more effectively.

39,8 18,6 6,2

-- My students who meet in social networks in the web have more academic success.

29,2 25,7 13,3

Student -- I have to opportunity to prepare more qualified papers by using social media.

67,5 19,9 2,6

-- Since I communicate with my friend in social networks, I got more success in my courses.

42,5 34,2 3,4

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Sample Evaluation

Table 4: Facebook Usage

I agr

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I do

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Academician -- Facebook, is a useful platform to share course documents with students

29,2 40,7 8,0

-- Facebook gives me the opportunity to direct students instantly.

48,2 24,1 10,7

Student --Most of colleagues in my department use Facebook to share course documents with students.

23,8 58,9 7,9

-- Most of colleagues in my department use Facebook to send instant message or communicate with students.

28,5 45,0 8,6

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Sample Evaluation

Table 5: Blog and Cloud Usage

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Academician -- Blog (wordpress, blogspot, bloger vb.) is a useful platform to share course documents with students and make announcements.

62,5 7,1 11,6

-- Google Document/Drive is a useful platform which can be used for file management and sharing.

79,5 3,6 6,2

Student -- Most of lecturers in my department create a blog (wordpress, blogspot, bloger etc.) and share course documents with students by using it

33,8 43,0 11,9

-- most of the lecturers in my department use Google Document/Drive to share file/document/course materials with students

27,2 43,7 15,2

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Sample Evaluation

Table 6: Usage of YouTube and Twitter

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ee (%

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Academician -- YouTube is a kind of useful platform that can be used for sharing educational videos.

67,9 14,3 4,5

-- Twitter is a useful platform to send instant messages with educational content to the students.

39,3 28,6 11,6

Student -- Lecturers in my department use YouTube to share personal or departmental activities with students.

29,1 46,4 12,6

-- Lecturers in my department use Twitter to send instant messages to students.

21,2 57,0 13,9

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Conclusion-- The first of hypothesis of research “Among the academicians, the use of social media with educational purpose is accepted as pointless” is verified substantially.

-- The second hypothesis “Among the academicians the level of social media use with educational purpose is in low level” is also confirmed to a large extent. Particularly the determination of students about the academicians’ behaviors can be taken into the consideration.

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Conclusion-- Another hypothesis “Students see social media as a useful tool in the area education” is also verified in this study. It can be claimed that both academicians and students have similar tendency in terms of usefulness of social media in education.

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Conclusion-- Finally, the last hypothesis “Students find the level of their lecturer’s social media use in their educational practices insufficient” is verified according to the result of research.

-- Many academic studies show that there is positive correlation between social media usage in education and academic success.

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USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA BY ACADEMICIANS

Hüseyin Odabaş

Assoc. Prof., Atatürk University, Department of Information Management, Türkiye