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Exploring Social Media As A Means Of Fostering Student Engagement, Rosie Hand

Teaching Fellowships

p>The overall of this project was to explore the emerging potential of social media as a tool to engage students and enhance their learning. The specific objectives were: to assess the potential uses of social media as a means to foster student engagement: to explore creative methods of leveraging existing and new social media technologies to enhance the overall student experience: to assist programme directors and lecturers in identifying opportunities where social media may be utilised to enhance module and programme delivery. Google+ was identified as an appropriate social media platform to engage with students for formal teaching purposes. …