Exploring the effect of social media in Personal Learning Environments in the university settingsanalysing experiences and detecting future challenges

  1. Gil-Fernández, Raquel 1
  2. Calderón-Garrido, Diego 2
  3. Martín-Piñol, Carolina 3
  1. 1 Universidad Internacional de La Rioja
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    Universidad Internacional de La Rioja

    Logroño, España

    ROR https://ror.org/029gnnp81

  2. 2 Serra Húnter Fellow, Universitat de Barcelona
  3. 3 Universitat de Barcelona
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    Universitat de Barcelona

    Barcelona, España

    ROR https://ror.org/021018s57

Journal:
RED: revista de educación a distancia

ISSN: 1578-7680

Year of publication: 2023

Issue Title: Entornos personales de aprendizaje : desafiando los ecosistemas conectados con la agencia de las personas

Volume: 23

Issue: 71

Type: Article

DOI: 10.6018/RED.526311 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openDIGITUM editor

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Abstract

The concept of PLEs as connected learning and the shaping of them as a socio-material framework in which people learn, overlaps with the intrinsic characteristics of social media. Consequently, it is important to analyse how academic literature has treated the direct relationship between the two realities in the university sector. Accordingly, the objective of this work is to determine how this relationship has been treated with regards to contexts, authorship and positions, types of social media, objectives pursued, methodologies and results. Regarding methodology, we used the PICOC strategy to design the research questions and the PRISMA protocol to carry out a meta-analysis of academic production in SCOPUS and JCR between 2012 and 2021. We ultimately obtained a sample of 35 works. The findings show that use of media to build PLEs that meet users’ needs should be explored in greater depth and analysed by using particular methodologies to reach conclusions that help to drive them. Academic and professional promotion stand out among the major challenges in the use of social media in PLEs, as does the possibility of bringing together non-formal, formal, and informal areas to create learning.

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