Bernard:

Here's my conference presentation on how to use Facebook to help secondary school students with their writing skills by engaging them on topics that they blog about on Facebook such as film, music, fashion, and sports: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/263767122_Social_Media_in_Education_Bringing_Your_Classroom_to_Life_-_UWI_Research_Expo_2013

Best regards,

Debra

Conference Paper Social Media in Education: Bringing Your Classroom to Life -...

Bernard, a greeting I suggest checking:

• Uso de redes sociales en el contexto de la educación superior, hacia un entorno de aprendizaje en red

And, I recommend in Communicar Journal, the following items:

• New Models of Communication, Profiles and Trends in Social Networks
• Gender Stereotypes 2.0: Self-representations of Adolescents on Facebook in Comunicar 48
• The Reasons for Non-Use of Social Networking Websites by University Students in Comunicar 41
• Online and Mobilized Students: The Use of Facebook in the Chilean Student Protests in Comunicar 43
• Discriminatory Expressions, the Young and Social Networks: The Effect of Gender in Comunicar 46
• Common Uses of Facebook among Adolescents from Different Social Sectors in Buenos Aires City in Comunicar 43
• News Consumption among Chilean Adolescents: Interest, Motivations and Perceptions on the News Agenda in Comunicar 43
• Ethos, Pathos and Logos in Facebook. User Networking: New «Rhetor» of the 21th Century in Comunicar 41
• Informal Learning through Facebook among Slovenian Pupils in Comunicar 41
• Social Networks and Young People. Comparative Study of Facebook between Colombia and Spain in Comunicar 40
• Intimacy and «Extimacy» in Social Networks. Ethical Boundaries of Facebook in Comunicar 41
• Digital Civic Activism in Romania: Framing anti-Chevron Online Protest Community «Faces» in Comunicar 47
• Perceived Social Support as a Factor of Rural Women’s Digital Inclusion in Online Social Networks in Comunicar 43
• Interactive Youth and Civic Cultures: The Educational, Mediatic and Political Meaning of the 15M in Comunicar 40

Sincerely.

http://www.revistacomunicar.com/index.php?contenido=detalles&numero=33&articulo=33-2009-09

http://www.revistacomunicar.com/index.php?contenido=resultado¶metro=textos

Conference Paper Uso de redes sociales en el contexto de la educación superio...

Please find attached some literature for your perusal.

Regards

Article Using a Facebook Group As an Educational Tool: Effects on St...

Article Undergraduates' Facebook use: evidence-based practice to imp...

Article Teaching style and attitudes towards Facebook as an educational tool

Article Facebook: A potential educational tool in higher education

Article Facebook as an educational tool in the teaching-learning pro...

Conference Paper Quantifying and Evaluating Student Participation and Engagem...

Hi,

May be this paper could help:

Using Facebook as a co-learning community in higher education

By: Cuesta, Marta; Eklund, Monica; Rydin, Ingegerd; et al.

LEARNING MEDIA AND TECHNOLOGY Volume: 41 Issue: 1 Special Issue: SI Pages: 55-72 Published: JAN 2 2016

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Students' cultural capital plays a major role in their success in higher education. In Sweden today, many students come from diverse cultural, social and educational backgrounds. Knowledge of requirements in academic systems differs widely. Some students feel insecure about how to interpret academic codes, thus weakening these students' opportunities for academic success. The major goal of this project was to lay the groundwork for a more equal educational system. Using social media, in this case conversations (e.g., chats) in a closed forum on Facebook monitored by a tutor, we aimed to improve student integration into academic culture. We differentiated two central themes related to student conversations on Facebook: (1) Access to academic habitus - cracking codes and (2) Emancipation by co-learning - extended academic codes. It was found that students participating in study groups created on Facebook learnt to better crack and extend the codes extant in university studies.

Hello Bernard, I have done some research on the topic hope it helps.

Rob.

Dear Bernard,

I use Twitter to support medical students and have an article on early view in Anatomical Sciences Education (see attachment). There is also a paper on Facebook use in anatomy education in the same journal by Jaffar 2014 that you could use.

Hope this helps

Catherine 

Have you done a state of art with ISI web of Knowledge? It has some functionalities that can be useful for your approach.

Best

try contacting Dr. Ron Blonder. her Ph.D student just recently completed her thesis on this topic (related to Chemistry).  e-mail: [email protected]

good luck

R. Eidelman

Hello, Bernard

I examined a study by N du Plessis in 2012 on the following topic:

Facebook in Higher Education: An auto-ethnographic journey venturing into edusocial space

I'm sure you'll find it if you Google it.

Regards

Karen