Department of Pharmacy Practice, Nova Southeastern University College of Pharmacy, Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33328, USA.
Teach Learn Med. 2013;25(2):122-8. doi: 10.1080/10401334.2013.770742.
Social media may offer a means to engage students, facilitate collaborative learning, and tailor educational delivery for diverse learning styles.
The purpose of this study is to characterize social media awareness among pharmacy students and determine perceptions toward integrating these tools in education.
A 23-item survey was administered to 1st-year students at a multicampus college of pharmacy.
Students (95% response rate; N = 196) most commonly used wikis (97%), social networking (91%), and videosharing (84%). Tools reported as never used or unknown included social bookmarking (89%), collaborative writing (84%), and RSS readers (73%). Respondents indicated that educational integration of social media would impact their ability to learn in a positive/very positive manner (75%) and make them feel connected/very connected (68%).
Selectively targeting social media for educational integration and instructing pharmacy students how to employ a subset of these tools may be useful in engaging them and encouraging lifelong learning.
社交媒体可能为吸引学生、促进协作学习以及针对不同学习风格定制教育提供了一种手段。
本研究旨在描述药学学生对社交媒体的认识，并确定对整合这些工具进行教育的看法。
对一所多校区药学院的一年级学生进行了一项 23 项的调查。
学生（95%的回复率；N=196）最常使用的是维基（97%）、社交网络（91%）和视频共享（84%）。报告从未使用或未知的工具包括社会书签（89%）、协作写作（84%）和 RSS 阅读器（73%）。受访者表示，社交媒体在教育中的整合将以积极/非常积极的方式影响他们的学习能力（75%），并使他们感到联系/非常联系（68%）。
有针对性地将社交媒体用于教育整合，并指导药学学生如何使用其中的一些工具，可能有助于吸引他们并鼓励终身学习。
