Title:
Social media and social capital in online learning
Author:
A Venter
Published:
South African Journal of Higher Education, volume 33, number 3 (2019)
From the abstract:
"Online learning affords student with an opportunity to collaborate with peers in furthering their learning. Open distance learning (ODL) institutions typically accommodate students from diverse educational backgrounds with disparate levels of access to technological resources. The mere existence of an online learning platform does not necessarily equate to student access to the collaborative learning opportunities. Online students need to able to activate and customise those opportunities and establish social learning networks to further their studies. A qualitative study investigated how diverse students in an online learning module collaborated with peers in pursuit of their learning project at a large ODL university."
Link:
https://www.journals.ac.za/index.php/sajhe/article/view/3105