Publication Type
Conference Paper
Publication Date
9-2010
Abstract
Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia, is the most preferred choice for college students’ research need. However, Wikipedia has been criticized for its low information quality, lack of accountability, inconsistency, and vandalism. Despite the warning and concerns from the academia, social media and interactive collaborative learning tools such as Wikipedia will continue to become a major mode of learning in today’s classroom. This paper, with a sample of 184 college students, empirically tests a proposed theoretical model which includes internal beliefs, motivations for information seeking, need for cognition, social influence, normative pressure, and Wikipedia use and information seeking behavior.
Keywords
Wikipedia, collective learning tool, social media for learning, motivation
Discipline
Business and Corporate Communications
Research Areas
Corporate Communication
Publication
Interactive Conference on Computer Aided Learning (ICL)
City or Country
Hasselt, Belgium
Citation
CHUNG, Siyoung.
Factors influencing the use of social media in learning: A case of Wikipedia.. (2010). Interactive Conference on Computer Aided Learning (ICL).
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research_smu/97
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