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Hope, A. (2016). Educational heterotopia and students’ use of Facebook. Auatralasian Journal of Educational Technology, 32(1), 47-58. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.14742/ajet.2209 The journal on ‘Educational heterotopia and students’ use of Facebook’ reflects the use of Facebook as a useful means of propagating and sharing knowledge among the students of any university. The article also highlights the use of Facebook amongst the faculties as a way of reaching students with their study and course materials and thereby aiding them to learn in the exact way they want to teach. However, Facebook here is a representative of available SNS as the number of user Facebook has got is way higher than other SNSs. Facebook has therefore
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Online social networking has a huge impact in higher education which is constantly rising. This report suggests how online social networking (OSN) has become a commonplace for enhancing learnability. It examines the strategies lecturers are following using online social medias for the purpose of learning. The research is interview based and the interviews have been conducted among fourteen lecturers from Australia and sixteen Malaysian lecturers. Building in empirical study the research suggests a framework which can be used to guide lecturers to use social medias both systematically and appropriately. An interpretive approach has been adopted in order to outreach new phenomena that are now properly understood. As the use of online social networking is comparatively a new phenomena hence an interpretive approach is needed to understand the way of social medias appropriation, by engaging everyone who are already involved in use of OSN in higher education sector. For data collection the research used a semi-structured interview strategy. A face to face session with Australians and Malaysians teachers were conducted. 30 lecturers from 15 different universities were interviewed. For heuristic reason, it was conducted in the background of both Australia and Malaysia. Thematic coding were used for data analysis which involves scheming of the transcript, taking notes, comparing different themes for coding and later the codes were transformed into categories. All of the interviewed transcripts later were printed, read several times and for identifying potential themes notes were recorded. Later these were carefully scrutinized for both connections and redundancies. There was a proposal framework based on the data collected from the interviews and a detail exploration of how this the research participants used social technologies to teach. The framework suggest that the use of social technologies can be