Social Facebook With Big Six Approaches for Improved Students’ Learning Performance and Behavior: A Case Study of a Project Innovation and Implementation Course

Abstract

In Taiwan, classroom lectures are gradually shifting from traditional to diverse digital learning environments through social network websites. Facebook is being used to provide a space for sharing and discussing learning materials and knowledge for teachers and students. In this paper, we focus on the effects of applying Big Six approaches to Facebook on students’ learning performance and behavior in a project innovation and implementation course. The participants were 72 first-year students in a college located in north Taiwan. The experimental participants who took the course were divided into two classes: the experimental group and the control group. While the experimental group used Facebook combined with Big Six approaches, the control group used traditional classroom tools combined with Big Six approaches. The experimental results show that the learning performance and creativity development of students from the experimental group are enhanced after using Facebook with Big Six approaches indicating a great social interaction and discussion cycle. On the other hand, students from the control group were only guided by the teacher. Owing to the lack of interactions between the Internet and the social learning community, there is no obvious enhancement in students’ learning performance and creativity. In addition, we found that the teacher practiced the tips for guiding experimental students to solve the encountered problem, and then the students replied to the classmate’s questions.

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