Electronic learning (e-learning) is a broader approach to learning that brings new
opportunities for learning and teaching in many fields of education far from the traditional …

This paper presents a systematic review of 52 empirical studies of formally-organized and
informally-developed online teacher communities from the early 2000s to the present time …

It is argued that social media has the potential to bridge formal and informal learning through
participatory digital cultures. Exemplars of sophisticated use by young people support this …

While the microblogging service Twitter is increasingly popular among educators and offers
numerous affordances for learning, its relationship with formal education systems remains …

Twitter, a popular microblogging social networking site, allows individuals to communicate
by sending short messages of up to 140 characters. Although it enables people to be in …

A Personal Learning Environment or PLE is a potentially promising pedagogical approach
for both integrating formal and informal learning using social media and supporting student …

Analysing the process by which students—whether at university or not—manage and
facilitate their own learning has been a recurrent educational research problem. Recently …

Names: Mercer, Neil, editor.| Wegerif, Rupert, 1959-editor.| Major, Louis,(Louis Christopher),
1985-editor. Title: The Routledge international handbook of research on dialogic …

The history of linguistics is punctuated by sea changes of culture afforded by new
technologies of communication–first writing, then audio recording and most recently Web 1.0 …

Despite the widespread use of social media by students and its increased use by instructors,
very little empirical evidence is available concerning the impact of social media use on …