Social Media in Education in the Pandemic: Clusterings of Teachers and Students
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Apr 22, 2024
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Social Media Education Covid19 Pandemic Multivariate Statistics Automatic Hierarchical Clustering
Abstract
Given the difference between purely educational learning platforms and Social Media, the positive and negative aspects of the latter are the subject of dynamic research. It is widely known that participatory Internet applications are an excellent place for communication, knowledge dissemination, exchange of ideas, peer and teacher communication, creating multimodal learning communities with intense social and cognitive interaction. However, they can also lead to excessive consumption of leisure time, distraction from the educational processes in and outside the school environment, ultimately leading to a deterioration in school performance and possible involvement in situations that pose other forms of social risk. For this reason, the attitudes of stakeholders in the educational process at all levels of education vary. Having available the results of a questionnaire survey that aimed to capture the situation regarding the use of Social Media in all levels of education in Greece, at a time immediately after the drastic social impact of the Covid pandemic19, this paper aims to categorize the stakeholders' attitudes by applying the method of Multiple Factor Analysis and Automatic Hierarchical Clustering. The application of the method led to the categorization of the sample into three groups of teachers and three groups of students with homogeneous qualitative characteristics based on their responses, which satisfactorily outline attitudes and trends of the sample of a particular period. Finally, by applying this classification method, a structural model of assessment was established, with which it was possible to shed light on the attitudes and behaviors of teachers and students in this particular period of observation.
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Vagianos, D., Koutsoupias, N., Techlikidou, E., & Kokkineli, K. (2024). Social Media in Education in the Pandemic: Clusterings of Teachers and Students. Data Analysis Bulletin, 20(1), 78–94. Retrieved from https://ejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr/index.php/dab/article/view/31213
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