TY - GEN
T1 - Social media in educational practice
T2 - 50th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2017
AU - del Valle, Marc Esteve
AU - Gruzd, Anatoliy
AU - Haythornthwaite, Caroline
AU - Paulin, Drew
AU - Gilbert, Sarah
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - This paper presents results from a questionnaire (n=333) designed to gain an understanding of instructor motivations and experience with social media use in educational practice. Data on overall use of social media, and instructors' use of social media in classes are applied to assess factors leading to present and future use of social media in teaching, using a framework based on the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT2) model. Our findings show use in teaching is driven by factors associated with UTAUT's Performance Expectancy construct, i.e., personal engagement with social media, and Moderating Condition of age, with older participants making greater use of social media in teaching. Other constructs associated with use are Habit (experience teaching online), Social Influence (colleagues using social media), Effort Expectancy (awareness of barriers, staying informed), Facilitating Conditions (institutional technology support) and Moderating Conditions (teaching at a two-year college).
AB - This paper presents results from a questionnaire (n=333) designed to gain an understanding of instructor motivations and experience with social media use in educational practice. Data on overall use of social media, and instructors' use of social media in classes are applied to assess factors leading to present and future use of social media in teaching, using a framework based on the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT2) model. Our findings show use in teaching is driven by factors associated with UTAUT's Performance Expectancy construct, i.e., personal engagement with social media, and Moderating Condition of age, with older participants making greater use of social media in teaching. Other constructs associated with use are Habit (experience teaching online), Social Influence (colleagues using social media), Effort Expectancy (awareness of barriers, staying informed), Facilitating Conditions (institutional technology support) and Moderating Conditions (teaching at a two-year college).
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85062360879
T3 - Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
SP - 164
EP - 173
BT - Proceedings of the 50th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2017
A2 - Bui, Tung X.
A2 - Sprague, Ralph
PB - IEEE Computer Society
Y2 - 3 January 2017 through 7 January 2017
ER -