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With Social Media becoming an everyday communication method for individuals and organizations, it's logical to incorporate its use into instructional approaches. Using Social Media to Enhance students ' Learning Experiences James A. Griesemer Abstract features such as bulletin boards, wikis, Current business students are and online meetings and also incor- digital technology natives with great porate other tools like blogs, podcasts, sophistication in the uses and poten- really simple syndication (RSS), and tial of Social Media . This is good Twitter. Although incorporating Social because businesses and other organi- Media into a course requires consider- zations are expecting today's graduates able time and effort, the results to date to be highly proficient in these tech- have exceeded expectations. nologies.

10 Quality approaches in higher education Vol. 3, No. 1 lives, they needed instruction on how to use them safely in an educational setting. A social media usage agreement (see the side-bar, “Social Media Usage Agreement—Terms

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