@article {1161,
	title = {EDUCATIONAL POTENTIAL OF ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKS: GENDER AND CROSS-COUNTRY ANALYSIS},
	journal = {Problems of Education in the 21st Century},
	volume = {76},
	year = {2018},
	month = {October/2018},
	pages = {Continuous},
	type = {Original article},
	chapter = {620-632},
	abstract = {The social media technologies are blurring the boundaries between formal and informal/non-formal learning and provide new educational opportunities. Recent work shows that online social networks provide various kinds of educational support, such as social learning, informal/non-formal education, information, interaction, and collaboration. The aim of this research was to analyze the gender and cross-country differences in the perception of the educational opportunities provided by Facebook. The educational opportunities have been specified as a global factor that manifests along four dimensions: information, collaboration, personal development, and professional development. The model has been tested on two samples of university students, one from Romania and the other from Lithuania. An analysis of invariance has been carried on that shows that the educational opportunities model is invariant across groups. The results showed that female students have a higher perception of the educational opportunities provided by Facebook.},
	keywords = {cross-country differences, educational opportunities, gender differences, invariance analysis, online social networks},
	issn = {1822-7864},
	doi = {https://doi.org/10.33225/pec/18.76.620},
	url = {http://oaji.net/articles/2017/457-1540320007.pdf},
	author = {Gabriel Gorghiu and Dragos Daniel Iordache and Costin   Pribeanu and Vincentas  Lamanauskas}
}
@article {1073,
	title = {SOCIAL INFLUENCE AND DEPENDENCE IN THE FACEBOOK USE BY ROMANIAN AND LITHUANIAN UNIVERSITY STUDENTS},
	journal = {Problems of Education in the 21st Century},
	volume = {75},
	year = {2017},
	month = {August/2017},
	pages = {Continuous},
	type = {Original article},
	chapter = {354-365},
	abstract = {The time spent on Facebook by university students is continuously increasing. This fact is raising many questions as regards the relation between the social networking websites and the university. The educators are challenged to understand the factors that are driving the adoption of social networking websites, the characteristics of the daily use as well as the positive and negative effects on the university work. The social influence has been recognized as one of the factors that are driving the adoption of information systems. On another hand, the excessive use may lead to addiction. The first objective of this research is to explore the correlation between the social influence and the Facebook dependence. A model with these latent variables has been specified and tested on two samples of university students, the first from Romania and the second from Lithuania. The second objective of the research is to comparatively discuss the measures in each country. A multi-group confirmatory factor analysis has been carried on to test the configural and metric invariance. The comparison of means shows that university students reporting higher social influence have a higher risk of Facebook dependence. The comparative analysis revealed that for both variables, the mean values are higher for the Romanian sample.},
	keywords = {e-learning process, Facebook dependence, invariance analysis, social influence},
	issn = {1822-7864},
	doi = {https://doi.org/10.33225/pec/17.75.354},
	url = {http://oaji.net/articles/2017/457-1503750787.pdf},
	author = {Vincentas  Lamanauskas and Dragos Daniel Iordache and Costin   Pribeanu}
}
