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Social Network Sites as Educational Factors

BACKGROUND: in this present era, the technology development has established certain type of communication. Nowadays education as the fundamental principle in transferring cognition to the learners has found various methods. Recently the concept that social networks could be effective tool in easing...

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Autores principales: Ebrahimpour, Alireza, Rajabali, Farnaz, Yazdanfar, Fatemeh, Azarbad, Reza, Nodeh, Majid Rezaei, Siamian, Hasan, Vahedi, Mohammad
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Publicado: AVICENA, d.o.o., Sarajevo 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4851518/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27147807
http://dx.doi.org/10.5455/aim.2016.24.134-138
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author Ebrahimpour, Alireza
Rajabali, Farnaz
Yazdanfar, Fatemeh
Azarbad, Reza
Nodeh, Majid Rezaei
Siamian, Hasan
Vahedi, Mohammad
author_facet Ebrahimpour, Alireza
Rajabali, Farnaz
Yazdanfar, Fatemeh
Azarbad, Reza
Nodeh, Majid Rezaei
Siamian, Hasan
Vahedi, Mohammad
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description BACKGROUND: in this present era, the technology development has established certain type of communication. Nowadays education as the fundamental principle in transferring cognition to the learners has found various methods. Recently the concept that social networks could be effective tool in easing the achievement to the educational goals has been under attention. Therefore, this investigation is trying to find out whether, the social networks could play role on the process of education among students? MATERIALS AND METHODS: This cross sectional descriptive study was performed on 1000 students from 7 medical universities in 2015. The data collection tool was questionnaire that was approved Cronbach’s alpha: was 0.85. Meanwhile its validity was confirmed too. The obtained data were analyzed by the descriptive statistic, ANOVA, Turkey and used X(2) SPSS-19. RESULTS: In this investigation, 940 subjects were under study. 85% used daily the social network. The highest usage was attributed to the Telegram. 52% preferred image suitable for transferring of information. Even though, 73% believed that these networks have significant effects on coordinating of students with in university charges. CONCLUSION: Considering the findings of the present study, it is proposed that the universities integrate the social networks in the education programs and recognize it as the awareness factor, therefore benefit it in the educational affairs.
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spelling pubmed-48515182016-05-04 Social Network Sites as Educational Factors Ebrahimpour, Alireza Rajabali, Farnaz Yazdanfar, Fatemeh Azarbad, Reza Nodeh, Majid Rezaei Siamian, Hasan Vahedi, Mohammad Acta Inform Med Original Paper BACKGROUND: in this present era, the technology development has established certain type of communication. Nowadays education as the fundamental principle in transferring cognition to the learners has found various methods. Recently the concept that social networks could be effective tool in easing the achievement to the educational goals has been under attention. Therefore, this investigation is trying to find out whether, the social networks could play role on the process of education among students? MATERIALS AND METHODS: This cross sectional descriptive study was performed on 1000 students from 7 medical universities in 2015. The data collection tool was questionnaire that was approved Cronbach’s alpha: was 0.85. Meanwhile its validity was confirmed too. The obtained data were analyzed by the descriptive statistic, ANOVA, Turkey and used X(2) SPSS-19. RESULTS: In this investigation, 940 subjects were under study. 85% used daily the social network. The highest usage was attributed to the Telegram. 52% preferred image suitable for transferring of information. Even though, 73% believed that these networks have significant effects on coordinating of students with in university charges. CONCLUSION: Considering the findings of the present study, it is proposed that the universities integrate the social networks in the education programs and recognize it as the awareness factor, therefore benefit it in the educational affairs. AVICENA, d.o.o., Sarajevo 2016-04 2016-03-26 /pmc/articles/PMC4851518/ /pubmed/27147807 http://dx.doi.org/10.5455/aim.2016.24.134-138 Text en Copyright: © 2016 Alireza Ebrahimpour, Farnaz Rajabali, Fatemeh Yazdanfar, Reza Azarbad, Majid Rezaei Nodeh, Hasan Siamian, Mohammad Vahedi http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Ebrahimpour, Alireza
Rajabali, Farnaz
Yazdanfar, Fatemeh
Azarbad, Reza
Nodeh, Majid Rezaei
Siamian, Hasan
Vahedi, Mohammad
Social Network Sites as Educational Factors
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4851518/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27147807
http://dx.doi.org/10.5455/aim.2016.24.134-138
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