Towards Identification of Students’ Holistic Learning Process through Facebook in Higher Education

Said, Mohd Nihra Haruzuan Mohamad; Tahir, Lokman Mohd

doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2013.10.238

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“…The first thing to notice is the great interest in the scientific and academic community for social networks' educational use. Also, even if a few years ago this particular scientific field was considered poor [34,91], we realized that this seems to be changing.…”

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Social Media Use in Higher Education: A Review

Zachos

Paraskevopoulou-Kollia

Anagnostopoulos

2018

Education Sciences

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Nowadays, social networks incessantly influence the lives of young people. Apart from entertainment and informational purposes, social networks have penetrated many fields of educational practices and processes. This review tries to highlight the use of social networks in higher education, as well as points out some factors involved. Moreover, through a literature review of related articles, we aim at providing insights into social network influences with regard to (a) the learning processes (support, educational processes, communication and collaboration enhancement, academic performance) from the side of students and educators; (b) the users’ personality profile and learning style; (c) the social networks as online learning platforms (LMS—learning management system); and (d) their use in higher education. The conclusions reveal positive impacts in all of the above dimensions, thus indicating that the wider future use of online social networks (OSNs) in higher education is quite promising. However, teachers and higher education institutions have not yet been highly activated towards faster online social networks’ (OSN) exploitation in their activities.

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Social Media Use in Higher Education: A Review

Zachos

Paraskevopoulou-Kollia

Anagnostopoulos

2018

Education Sciences

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“…Wang et al (2012) argued among other things for the benefits of utilizing Facebook in particular as it is so widely used (which was back in 2012 -even more widely used now a few years later) and that it has potential as an educational tool. Said and Tahir (2013) also researched Facebook use in higher education, although in light of distance learning students. Said and Tahir argued then for a more holistic learning process potentially being achieved if Facebook is used for several reasons, and stated that interaction in such forums may be fundamental and vital.…”

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An Investigation into Perceptions of Facebook-use in Higher Education

Ellefsen¹

2015

IJHE

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This paper reports the complete process for and findings resulting from an individual-led research project entitled An Investigation into Perceptions of Facebook-use in Higher Education. The aim of the research project was primarily to investigate current perceptions of using Facebook as a means for interaction between students and lecturers at university level. Findings are based on data collected from two sample populations (students and lecturers) using qualitative research methodology. Tentative findings suggest that students in particular find using Facebook for this purpose to be most appealing and would embrace such initiative in the future, whereas lecturers seem split in opinion on the matter, which is in line with previous research on social media use in higher education.Keywords: Social media, Facebook, Higher Education, Student-teacher interaction, Student experience IntroductionIn the current Web 2.0 era, social media (SM) has become immensely popular, especially among younger people, including the student demographic that tend to use SM on a regular and very frequent basis. Facebook is today by far the most widely used SM application among not only people of all ages, but more specifically among students who seem to prefer Facebook over competing platforms as their primary social media, although they rarely remain entirely "Facebook-exclusive" as they also often use other SM platforms (McDermott 2014;Selwyn 2009). Recent statistics detail that Facebook had close to 1.5BN active users in March 2015 (Statista 2015), and research has previously reported that as much as 95% of students have Facebook accounts and use these actively.Given the current status of social media, it is conceivable that universities, or teachers/lecturers at universities would contemplate using social media to communicate or engage with students somehow, especially since it has also been argued that a significant portion of university staff also use Facebook quite regularly and as such are not necessarily foreign to SM platforms. It has however been argued that even though a large number of university staff also use Facebook regularly, students are generally more positive than staff to the idea of using Facebook within a higher education context (Robyler, McDaniel, Webb, Herman and Witty, 2010), but that teachers are becoming increasingly more aware of social media and its inherent possibilities for various applications. Selwyn (2012) argued regarding use of social media in higher education that "… growing numbers of educationalists are beginning to consider the possible significance and likely implications of social media for education practice and provision-especially in terms of higher education." (Selwyn, 2012, p. 2).In light of the fact that social media is indeed something which is most often used for personal activity rather than academic/professional activity by both students and staff at universities, it seems worthwhile to investigate social media use in this context if it is used for other purposes than perso...

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“…Currently, there are few studies on social networking sites (SNSs) although several studies on this subject have focused on identification, network structures, privacy, electronic commerce, and technological issues and, therefore, the need for research on SNSs in educational usages is now widely acknowledged (Mazman and Usluel, 2010;Lockyer and Patterson, 2008;Hsu et al, 2012). SNSs such as Facebook are successful virtual community communications technologies that have been widely adopted by students and, consequently, have the potential to become a valuable resource to support their educational communications and collaborations with faculty (Roblyer et al, 2010) as e-learning tools in adult education (Lohse, 2013;Lin et al, 2013) or in higher education (Said and Tahir, 2013;Jong et al, 2014;Amador and Amador, 2014;Roblyer et al, 2010;Pérez et al, 2013;Aydin, 2014;Arteaga Sánchez et al, 2014). Further, such technologies provide ways to acquire new knowledge via collaborative learning (Rau et al, 2008;Hsu et al, 2012) and interactions (Aydin, 2014).…”

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Understanding the relationships of critical factors to Facebook educational usage intention

Chen

2015

Internet Research

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Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to conceptualise a framework that integrates information quality, system quality, function quality, and social influence based on the information system (IS) success model, to explore the relationship among these factors, which might be the key determinants of Facebook educational usage intention. Design/methodology/approach -An internet survey was conducted to collect empirical data from 221 Facebook users on their experiences of using Facebook. This study applied structural equation modeling (SEM) to demonstrate the proposed model's construct relations and multiple group analysis. Findings -The results of this study show that social influence and information quality are critical and direct determinants that affect users' continuous intention to use Facebook in learning; social influence also indirectly affect Facebook usage intention through the mediating effect of information quality. Except the path between social influence and usage intention in age subgroups, the relationships among these determining factors in the proposed model are stable, and there were no significant differences among gender subgroups and age subgroups examined using the multiple group comparison test. Originality/value -The findings provide a better understanding of the IS success model that influences the Facebook educational usage intention for researchers and practitioners.

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Towards Identification of Students’ Holistic Learning Process through Facebook in Higher Education

Cited by 12 publications

References 21 publications

Social Media Use in Higher Education: A Review

Social Media Use in Higher Education: A Review

An Investigation into Perceptions of Facebook-use in Higher Education

Understanding the relationships of critical factors to Facebook educational usage intention

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