Effective Use of Facebook’s Social Learning Group as a Course Management System for Undergraduate Engineering Courses

Iftekhar, Lamia; Kamal, Mirza Sarwar; Amir, Shajnush

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“…[9]- [12] and the references within). For a detailed literature review on open-source CMSs and social media networks as CMSs as well as prior academic use of Facebook, please see the literature review of [6]. For this current work, we limit ourselves mostly to the context of pandemic-era measures.…”

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“…In this section we present a model of how we strove to use Facebook as an emergency remote teaching tool for our case study. Our model was designed heavily based on the four curated features that a CMS should have [6]. They are Communication, Material Management, Assessment and Progress Tracking.…”

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“…We focus only on the ERT model in this section. For a regular classroom supplement model and the pre-pandemic situation of the Facebook Groups, please see [6].…”

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“…Facebook's Social Learning Groups had already showed some potential as a CMS in our previous work [6]. As the most popular social network in the country, Facebook enjoys the loyalty of 94% of all active social media users of the country [7].…”

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Facebook’s Social Learning Group for Undergraduate Engineering Courses: A Case Study of Emergency Remote Teaching Amid Large Digital Divide

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2020 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering (TALE)

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platform for such a fully online setup. Such exploration became crucial in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic as institutions worldwide were forced to adopt emergency remote teaching.The COVID-19 pandemic has stricken almost all countries around the world. With governments implementing lockdown and quarantine measures, regular on-campus classes in schools, colleges, universities, and other educational institutions had come to a halt suddenly for many communities. Closure of educational institutions has affected more than 1.5 billion students worldwide [1].As communities faced extended periods of lockdowns or social distancing directives, educational institutions had to think fast about alternative measures to complete the semester they were in when the pandemic closed off regular operations. With very little preparation, teachers had to adopt emergency remote learning -and the process, platform, and planning varied widely from country to country, institution to institution, and even teacher to teacher.In Bangladesh, the first official COVID-19 cases were recorded in early March, and a national quarantine was imposed on March 25, which remained in effect for two months till May 30 through a series of extensions [2]. Although lockdown measures have been relaxed to some extent from June and a limited number of workplaces, industries, and businesses were allowed to operate with strict rules for physical distancing), the government has ordered all educational institutions to withhold their on-campus activities till August 6 [3]. Bangladesh has about fifty public universities and over a hundred private universities -all of which were affected by the directive. The University Grants Commission (UGC), the government body in charge of ensuring quality in higher education for the country [4], permitted online teaching but provided freedom to the universities to make decisions on their own in terms of the extent and nature. At the time of the school closures, universities were at different points of completion of their then-rolling semester. Some universities could cease all Abstract-The COVID-19 Pandemic has forced many educational institutions worldwide to adopt emergency measures to complete the semester or school-year, which was rolling before the crisis hit. Different formal and informal Course Management Systems (CMSs) were incorporated to aid in this sudden transition to virtual classroom mode. A significant challenge that emerged in the Global South during this emergency transition was the glaring presence of Digital Divide. In this paper, we explore this situation for Bangladesh through a case study of three courses where emergency remote teaching was adopted from March to June 2020. The students enrolled were surveyed using questionnaire and the collected data was analyzed to determine the potency of Facebook Social Learning groups in Emergency Remote Teaching. Even as the emergency remote teaching phase ends in many communities, the pandemic and its effects continue and institutions worldwide are preparing themsel...

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“…We focus only on the ERT model in this section. For a regular classroom supplement model and the pre-pandemic situation of the Facebook Groups, please see [6].…”

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Facebook’s Social Learning Group for Undergraduate Engineering Courses: A Case Study of Emergency Remote Teaching Amid Large Digital Divide

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Exploring the Use of Social Media in Engineering Education—Preliminary Findings from a Systematic Literature Review

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference &Amp; Exposition Proceedings

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Bridging the Gap: The Impact of Social Media on Modern Engineering Education—A Systematic Literature Review

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is a sophomore Computer Science major at the University of Oklahoma, where she is deeply engaged in undergraduate research. With a strong passion for advancing her field, Arianna focuses on projects that combine her technical skills with real-world applications. Her academic pursuits and commitment to her studies make her an emerging academic in the realm of computer science and engineering education.

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Effective Use of Facebook’s Social Learning Group as a Course Management System for Undergraduate Engineering Courses

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Facebook’s Social Learning Group for Undergraduate Engineering Courses: A Case Study of Emergency Remote Teaching Amid Large Digital Divide

Facebook’s Social Learning Group for Undergraduate Engineering Courses: A Case Study of Emergency Remote Teaching Amid Large Digital Divide

Exploring the Use of Social Media in Engineering Education—Preliminary Findings from a Systematic Literature Review

Bridging the Gap: The Impact of Social Media on Modern Engineering Education—A Systematic Literature Review

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