...’ learning activities such as academic performance, learning motivation and/or engagement, social interaction and self-directed learning skills. Meanwhile, the most significant challenges encountered by the instructors is a lack of students’ motivation to watch the pre-recorded video lectures or to study...

... Behaviour Social interaction Social networking sites Peer groups such as neighbourhoods and extended families that traditionally offered help and support to their members are today challenged by processes of urbanisation and labor mobility (Putnam, 1995 , 2000). Instead, different kinds of help...

... Learning Social networking sites Literacy Social interaction resources embedded in the social structure; accessibility to such resources; and mobilization of such resources by individuals in purposeful actions (Lin, 1999 , p. 35). Thus, investment in social networks may benefit...

... society.” © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Social networks Teaching Epistemology Social interaction Learning Virtual worlds are 3D internet‐based immersive simulation environments, and although one can play games inside a virtual world, they are not games. Users interact...