2014
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-4904-0.ch002
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An Informal Use of Facebook to Encourage Student Collaboration and Motivation for Off Campus Activities

Abstract: Facebook has become the students’ communication tool of choice. Instant messaging and online presence and the fact the “everyone you know” is on Facebook makes email look slow and clunky. Tutors may well be Facebook users themselves for those very same reasons, and as a way of keeping in touch with friends and family. Indeed, not to have a Facebook and Twitter account may be seen to be out of touch. At the same time, the Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) is embedded deeply into the higher education landscape.… Show more

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“…Some scholars believe the benefits of SNSs are greater than the risks (Abe & Jordan, 2013;Joosten, 2012;Kessler, 2010). These reported benefits include increased levels and frequency of communication between faculty and students, as well as between students (Hogg, 2014;Rasiah, 2014); a continuance of classroom discussion and learning beyond the four walls of the classroom (Dogoriti & Pange, 2014;Jaffar, 2014;Saykili & Kumtepe, 2014); and an approximation of real world situations (i.e., a virtual newsroom, a marketing-communications client) for the purposes of teaching and learning (Aayeshah & Bebawi, 2014;Adi, 2013). If the goal is to provide a safe SNS alternative where students can practice social networking skills, this can be accomplished with a learning management system (LMS), such as Blackboard or Edmodo (Howard, 2013).…”
Section: Attitudes Surrounding the Decision To Forego Facebookmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Some scholars believe the benefits of SNSs are greater than the risks (Abe & Jordan, 2013;Joosten, 2012;Kessler, 2010). These reported benefits include increased levels and frequency of communication between faculty and students, as well as between students (Hogg, 2014;Rasiah, 2014); a continuance of classroom discussion and learning beyond the four walls of the classroom (Dogoriti & Pange, 2014;Jaffar, 2014;Saykili & Kumtepe, 2014); and an approximation of real world situations (i.e., a virtual newsroom, a marketing-communications client) for the purposes of teaching and learning (Aayeshah & Bebawi, 2014;Adi, 2013). If the goal is to provide a safe SNS alternative where students can practice social networking skills, this can be accomplished with a learning management system (LMS), such as Blackboard or Edmodo (Howard, 2013).…”
Section: Attitudes Surrounding the Decision To Forego Facebookmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Although faculty who teach public relations, journalism, marketing, or other preprofessional courses may share Howard's (2013) deontological obligation to prepare students to use a platform they will encounter on the job in the world beyond the classroom (Aayeshah & Bebawi, 2014;Adi, 2013;Faulds & Mangold, 2014), the use of Facebook for teaching has not been restricted to specific disciplines. Faculty in Media Literacy (Churcher et al, 2014) , Filmmaking (Hogg, 2014), Statistics (Everson, et al 2013), Teacher Education (Baya'a & Daher, 2014; Haipinge, 2013) and other fields have adopted Facebook into their teaching methodology and measured the results.…”
Section: Global Phenomenamentioning
confidence: 99%
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