Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
acceptedVersion
Publication Date
10-2015
Abstract
This paper features a competency-enhancing social networking application which provides a solution for the dilemma of non-participating (non-engaged) students in class: ‘pedagogical tweeting’. Twitter’s micro-blogging service enables both instructors and students to send and read messages (tweets) of up to 140 characters, incl. links to blogs, web pages, photos, videos, etc. As Twitter can be accessed from a website, via applications on PC/Mac, iPhone, Android phones, etc., it represents an effective tool to engage students, e.g. by taking up questions during in-class and out-of-class discussions or by providing advice on assignments etc. Students in turn can generate their own learning context and benefit from collaborative knowledge creation. We share respective tweeting experiences made during a course on Knowledge Management (KM) taught at Singapore Management University (SMU) backed up by exploratory research on students’ micro-blogging activities. We discuss challenges ahead and propose four hypotheses about the effective deployment of social awareness streams such as Twitter in higher education.
Keywords
Twitter (micro-blogging), Higher education, Blended learning, Singapore
Discipline
Asian Studies | Business | Higher Education
Research Areas
Organisational Behaviour and Human Resources; Learning and Information Systems Education
Publication
Computers in Human Behavior
Volume
51
First Page
1295
Last Page
1302
ISSN
0747-5632
Identifier
10.1016/j.chb.2014.11.063
Publisher
Elsevier
Citation
Menkhoff, Thomas; CHUA, Yue Wah; Bengtsson, Magnus L.; WOODARD, C. Jason; and GAN, Benjamin.
Incorporating Microblogging (“Tweeting”) in Higher Education: Lessons Learnt in a Knowledge Management Course. (2015). Computers in Human Behavior. 51, 1295-1302.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/4361
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Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2014.11.063