Students' engagement on Facebook in undergraduate business courses: an experimental study

Khoei, Tala Talaei; Vichitvanichphong, Suchada; Abedin, Babak; Ghapanchi, Ahmad Reza; Abedin, Behnam

doi:10.1504/ijkl.2015.077534

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“…This basically leads to less students' engagement with the materials. Talaei Khoei et al [14] believes the demotivation among students to engage with the flipped class materials is due to the lack of social context in learning the contents before coming to the lectures. This is in agreement with what has been explored in peer tutoring by Talaei- Khoei and Daniel (2016).…”

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“…Although discussion boards are powerful tools to handle content-related interactions, they lack a comprehensive social engagement and non-pedagogical relationships among students that required for an effective peer tutoring environment [20]. Social engagement among learners can be boosted by social media sites such as Facebook [14], [21]. There are two main reasons for that.…”

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“…Among these, 54% of students utilize Facebook for their learning. Talaei Khoei et al [14] state that students prefer Facebook over discussion boards in the learning management systems because of the rigid structure of the discussion boards and also social connections that Facebook provides. The role of Facebook in facilitating peer learning practices to improve the students learning has been highlighted in the literature [4], [25].…”

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Can Facebook Improve Students’ Engagement in Flipped Classes? Community of Inquiry Approach

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Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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This paper aims at using Facebook to improve the students' engagements with the flipped learning materials through implementation of a socially enabled peer learning environment. The article reports an experiment comparing the online quizzes and Facebook to increase the students' engagement with the online materials in flipped classes. The study looks at the students' perceptions. The current study utilizes the Community of Inquiry (RCOI) to analyze the students' opinions about using Facebook for implementation of flipped learning. The paper provides recommendations to the instructors on how to use Facebook for increasing the students' engagement with the flipped materials. This study also motivates teaching practitioners in Information Systems to improve flipped learning by using social networking sites in their courses..

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confidence: 99%