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Play like a team in Teams: How students engage with online social learning

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Associate Professor Sarah Prestridge has studied how students interact on Microsoft Teams, classifying different interaction styles and aiming to further the effective use of technology in online learning to facilitate interaction

As the global pandemic increasingly keeps students away from classrooms, school and university-level teaching has had to adapt to online environments. It is now more important than ever that we understand how students can engage with each other in the online learning process. Associate Professor Sarah Prestridge from Griffith University, Australia, studied how students interact with their peers and online […]

#SocialScience: Mining Twitter for Social and Behavioural Research

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Twitter is a rich and timely resource for social and behavioural research.

A disaster strikes, somewhere in the world. Within minutes there are millions rushing to their screens, letting out their thoughts and feelings. This makes Twitter, along with other social platforms, a rich and timely resource for social and behavioural research. Surprisingly, however, it is a lot less utilised in the social sciences compared with other fields. Tweeters don’t reflect the […]