A Roadmap for Incorporating Online Social Media in Educational Research
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A Roadmap for Incorporating Online Social Media in Educational Research
Abstract/Description
Thanks to advancements in communication and online social media, there has been a surge of useful online educational resources across the Internet. In addition to supplementing educational materials, these resources could be used in varying education research and potentially advance the quality of education. Nevertheless, conducting such research projects requires using big data techniques and approaches to find meaningful resources and harnessing them in an effective way. In this chapter, we present a roadmap for how to incorporate online social media in education research projects. The roadmap consists of three major components: project initialization, data collection, and data utilization. Furthermore, we present some learned lessons, tips, and tricks, as well as case studies from the Teachers in Social Media project (www.teachersinsocialmedia.com/). We believe this chapter can be used as a practical reference point for many researchers whose concern is connecting data to their education research endeavors.
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Date
In publication
Volume
121
Issue
14
Pages
1-24
Resource type
Research/Scholarly Media
Resource status/form
Published Text
Scholarship genre
Empirical
Open access/full-text available
Yes
Peer reviewed
Yes
ISSN
0161-4681
Citation
Karimi, H., Derr, T., Torphy, K. T., Frank, K. A., & Tang, J. (2019). A Roadmap for Incorporating Online Social Media in Educational Research. Teachers College Record, 121(14), 1–24. https://doi.org/10.1177/016146811912101412
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