Social Media and other Web 2.0 Technologies as Communication Channels in a Cross-Cultural, Web-Based Professional Communication Project

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Author(s): Pavel Zemliansky (University of Central Florida, USA)and Olena Goroshko (The National Technical University: Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute, Ukraine)
Copyright: 2013
Pages: 17
Source title: Social Media and the New Academic Environment: Pedagogical Challenges
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Bogdan Pătruţ (Vasile Alecsandri University of Bacău, Romania), Monica Pătruţ (Vasile Alecsandri University of Bacău, Romania)and Camelia Cmeciu (Danubius University of Galati, Romania)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-2851-9.ch013

Keywords: Educational Technologies / Information Science Reference / Media & Communications / Social Networking

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In recent years, cross-national web-based teaching projects have become very popular in many fields. During such projects, participants from different countries work together on collaborative tasks. Communications among project participants take place over the Internet, including via social media. In this chapter, the author reports the results of social media use in one such project, which brought together students from the United States and Ukraine. A pre and post project survey taken by the participants demonstrate the main opportunities and challenges afforded by social media to educators. The reporting and analysis of the survey results are preceded by a review of relevant literature, which contextualizes our findings.

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