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Assessing and Training Social Media Skills in Vocational Education Supported by TEL Instruments

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Open Learning and Teaching in Educational Communities (EC-TEL 2014)

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The use of social media has become popular in the professional IT sector, requiring specific skills to exploit their full potential. Based on our model on relevant social media skills we report on a study testing related proficiencies of IT vocational students. From this we derive three technology-enhanced training instruments to foster the skills in vocational education processes.

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  1. Information Multimedia Communication AG, 66123, Saarbrücken, Germany

    Uta Schwertel & Michael Schmidt

  2. Knowledge Media Research Center, 72076, Tübingen, Germany

    Yvonne Kammerer, Clara Oloff & Peter Gerjets

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  1. Uta Schwertel
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Multimedia Communications Lab, Technische Universität, Darmstadt, Germany

    Christoph Rensing

  2. Murdoch University, 6150, Murdoch, WA, Australia

    Sara de Freitas

  3. Tallinn University, 10120, Tallinn, Estonia

    Tobias Ley

  4. Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, 28911, Leganés, Madrid, Spain

    Pedro J. Muñoz-Merino

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Schwertel, U., Kammerer, Y., Oloff, C., Gerjets, P., Schmidt, M. (2014). Assessing and Training Social Media Skills in Vocational Education Supported by TEL Instruments. In: Rensing, C., de Freitas, S., Ley, T., Muñoz-Merino, P.J. (eds) Open Learning and Teaching in Educational Communities. EC-TEL 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8719. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11200-8_83

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