Understanding knowledge acquisitions through social media among university students

Universities students tend to own an account on several social media sites making the combination of social media within the learning environment to be simpler. The study focuses on the use of social media and how it facilitates knowledge acquisition. This study adopts qualitative study and conduct...

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Main Author:	Badderudin, Puteri Alia Izzati
Format:	Thesis
Language:	eng eng eng
Published:	2019
Subjects:	L Education (General)
Online Access:	https://etd.uum.edu.my/9583/1/s821430_01.pdf https://etd.uum.edu.my/9583/2/s821430_02.pdf https://etd.uum.edu.my/9583/3/s821430_references.docx
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spelling	my-uum-etd.95832022-10-04T01:42:15Z Understanding knowledge acquisitions through social media among university students 2019 Badderudin, Puteri Alia Izzati Rusly, Fariza Hanim Tunku Puteri Intan Safinaz School of Accountancy (TISSA) Tunku Puteri Intan Safinaz School of Accountancy (TISSA) L Education (General) Universities students tend to own an account on several social media sites making the combination of social media within the learning environment to be simpler. The study focuses on the use of social media and how it facilitates knowledge acquisition. This study adopts qualitative study and conduct semi-structured interview to answer the research questions. Thematic analysis is used to analyze the data. Discussion of the findings is also provided through the use of educational learning theory as the theoretical lens to further understand student’s usage of social media. Besides, this study qualitative study successfully revealed findings and application of social media for knowledge acquisition among students based on educational learning theories such as behaviorism, cognitivism, constructivism, humanism, and connectivism. Although knowledge acquisition using social media is a complex phenomenon, it will definitely help researchers gain more insight into the topics by studying it in different settings and environment. This research contribute to higher learning institutions to identify the useful and powerful platform of social media for knowledge acquisition in helping students achieve better engagement in social media to acquire knowledge. Besides, it also provides an insight on the plausibility of “third variable explanation” for the results of the past studies along with contribution to theoretical development of social media in knowledge management especially in knowledge acquisition 2019 Thesis https://etd.uum.edu.my/9583/ https://etd.uum.edu.my/9583/1/s821430_01.pdf text eng public https://etd.uum.edu.my/9583/2/s821430_02.pdf text eng public https://etd.uum.edu.my/9583/3/s821430_references.docx text eng public other masters Universiti Utara Malaysia
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description	Universities students tend to own an account on several social media sites making the combination of social media within the learning environment to be simpler. The study focuses on the use of social media and how it facilitates knowledge acquisition. This study adopts qualitative study and conduct semi-structured interview to answer the research questions. Thematic analysis is used to analyze the data. Discussion of the findings is also provided through the use of educational learning theory as the theoretical lens to further understand student’s usage of social media. Besides, this study qualitative study successfully revealed findings and application of social media for knowledge acquisition among students based on educational learning theories such as behaviorism, cognitivism, constructivism, humanism, and connectivism. Although knowledge acquisition using social media is a complex phenomenon, it will definitely help researchers gain more insight into the topics by studying it in different settings and environment. This research contribute to higher learning institutions to identify the useful and powerful platform of social media for knowledge acquisition in helping students achieve better engagement in social media to acquire knowledge. Besides, it also provides an insight on the plausibility of “third variable explanation” for the results of the past studies along with contribution to theoretical development of social media in knowledge management especially in knowledge acquisition
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author	Badderudin, Puteri Alia Izzati
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title	Understanding knowledge acquisitions through social media among university students
title_short	Understanding knowledge acquisitions through social media among university students
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granting_institution	Universiti Utara Malaysia
granting_department	Tunku Puteri Intan Safinaz School of Accountancy (TISSA)
publishDate	2019
url	https://etd.uum.edu.my/9583/1/s821430_01.pdf https://etd.uum.edu.my/9583/2/s821430_02.pdf https://etd.uum.edu.my/9583/3/s821430_references.docx
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