JOURNAL OF BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOM ›› 2016, Vol. 18 ›› Issue (5): 89-94.

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Systematic Quantitative Review on SNS in Education: Current Situation and Challenges

  

  1. School of Network Education, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China
  • Received:2016-03-07 Online:2016-10-31

Abstract:

 The literature on the use of social network sites (SNS) in different levels of education and settings
for the future study is critically reviewed, for the purpose of fully understanding its current situation and
challenges. Twenty-one CSSCI indexed studies published in 2009—2014 were selected based on the selection criteria
and analyzed to answer the following questions: (a) What types of research have been published on the use of SNS
in education? (b) Which research methodologies are addressed and which methods are mostly used in data collection?
(c) What lines of research are currently developed and what are the main results of these studies? and (d) What
features do the geological distribution of these studies show? The analysis showed that the use of SNS in
education could encourage participation, engagement, reflective thinking as well as collaborative learning under
different learning settings.

Key words: social network sites, SNS, education, educational technology

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