Sentence examples for for university learning from inspiring English sources

Third party online learning and teaching products from vendors such as Pearson and McGraw-Hill are a new business model for university learning and teaching.

Knowing what is afforded within social media categories and characteristics, and therefore why certain technologies may be valued by students, gives a fuller picture of the purpose and function of social media for university learning, from the students' perspective.

Together, results from the semi-structured interviews and the survey show an important relationship between the particular ways of meaning making students identified and the specific social media technologies they use for their university learning.

Together, the qualitative and quantitative results demonstrate that several contextual relationships exist, including an important relationship between the particular ways of meaning making students identified and the specific social media technologies they use for their university learning.

Online file collaboration and sharing (e.g., the institutional version of Google Docs) and social networking technologies (e.g., Facebook) are the top SMTs students reported using for collaborating in their university learning.

As shown through the Pearson correlation, there is a significant relationship between ways of making meaning and specific SMT use, demonstrating not only the connections between meaning making and SMTs, but also that these contexts are important for social media in university learning.

Ruth Lawton is university learning and teaching fellow for employability at Birmingham City University.

For those who indicated using social media in their learning, in terms of usefulness for university, the social media characteristics that received a high number of strongly agree and agree ratings (see Table 4) included: Table 4 Q15: In your opinion, are the following characteristics of social media useful for your university learning?

For instance, in typical university learning environments, information remains mainly text-based, possibly mediated via a PowerPoint presentation or an intranet, but the advantages of a multimedia based content delivery are rarely considered.

When connected to notions of affordances, this reinforces that students generally gave higher agreement for these characteristics of social media as being useful and helping to make meaning of their university learning, rather than for the importance of specific SMTs themselves.

"They could say, 'Well, if you didn't protect the mark then, why are you protecting it now?' " For many years, it was difficult for universities to learn of infringements.