A paper from Master’s Degree student and professor from Department of Library Science, 2 papers, received an award “Outstanding Paper Award” from an international conference “International Conference on Information Science, Technology, Management, Humanities & Business (ITMAHuB 2016)” at Penang, Malaysia, on the past 21 – 23 November 2016.
Papers that were awarded:
- Retired Investors’ Information Seeking Behaviors Towards Decision-Making on a Stock Market Investment in Thailand by Assistant Professor Somsak Sriborisutsakul, Ph.D., and Miss Suchawadee Inthong.
- Undergraduate Students’ Use of Social Media for Course-Related Learning at Chulalongkorn University by Assistant Professor Oranuch Sawetrattanasatian, Ph.D., and Miss Chanikarn Hemprakarn
Both papers are a part of a thesis for Master’s of Arts in Library and Information Science, Chulalongkorn University.
A summary from the awarded papers:
Undergraduate Students’ Use of Social Media for Course-Related Learning at Chulalongkorn University
Chanikarn Hemprakan, Oranuch Sawetrattanasatian
Currently, undergraduate students extensively use social media, both for their daily lives and academic information seeking. Since social media is also advantageous to learning, it is increasingly popular among the young generation for the purpose of education. However, despite their familiarity with this new technology, undergraduate students still face some problems in using social media. Thus, this study was aimed to investigate undergraduate students’ use of social media for learning, specifically course-related learning, at Chulalongkorn University, in terms of types of social media and information used, reasons of use, methods of use, information evaluation, forms of information utilization, and problems in using it. The study should contribute to the faculty members’ implementation of social media for learning and librarians’ information services, including information literacy instruction. While the nature of this research is a case study, it may also interesting to other universities due to its useful suggestions, for both faculty members and librarians, on social media use for learning, particularly the course-related one.