Factors influencing the use of social media in adult learning experience
The uses of social media are very popular nowadays as a platform of informations exchanges among the users. It has been used to support e-learning, where lecturers uploading lecture notes and tutorial videos on a group page that joined by their students. For young generations, this is something that...
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Springer International Publishing
2017
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| Online Access: | DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-51281-5_58 DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-51281-5_58 |
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| Summary: | The uses of social media are very popular nowadays as a platform of
informations exchanges among the users. It has been used to support e-learning,
where lecturers uploading lecture notes and tutorial videos on a group page that
joined by their students. For young generations, this is something that they
expect from their lecturer. However it is different with adult learner who are not
all used to today’s technologies. This paper study the factors of that influenced
the use of social media in adult learning. By understanding the factors, practitioners
can used it as a basis to build a more specific social media tools that is
intended for adult learner. To understand the factors, a survey has been distributed
to a group of postgraduate students, and the data is analyzed by using
IBM SPSS 2.0. The research suggested that technology acceptance factor as
most dominant factor among the others that influenced the use of social media in
adult learning. The results of study also suggested there is significant relationship
of all factors specified. |
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