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Facebook can further facilitate students’ learning processes. Facebook and students’ performance It is certain that the way in which students use Facebook can determine the effect of its use on students’ academic achievement. Facebook has a positive effect on students’ achievement when used for educational purposes.
Facebook is growing fast in various fields including education field. Most studies showed that today students in higher education use Facebook to communicate, cooperating and finding solutions. The main purpose of this study is to investigate and reflect on students’ perspectives regarding the use of Facebook and its influence on students ...
For this reason, the teacher chose Facebook so that students had a social network as a supplementary platform of the subject where they could write during the semester and as a collaborative learning tool. The popularity of social media among young learners provides opportunites for students to communicate using English for academic purposes.
In the classroom, social media offers a way to systematically distribute and gather information from students. Teachers can supply documents, and audio/video media to students for immediate or later use. One study on higher education reported that devices and social media: [13] situated learning.
Facebook is a social networking service originally launched as TheFacebook on February 4, 2004, before changing its name to simply Facebook in August 2005. [1] It was founded by Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes. [2]
Students’ use of Facebook is profoundly informal and often at a tangent with the official learning aims of educators (Stutzman, 2005). It seems that the formal use of Facebook as a tool for rigorous academic study is fairly rare, but the use of Facebook as a tool for teaching and learning has been on the rise recently. According to Selwyn
Education was a process that involved three steps, first was Shravana (hearing) which is the acquisition of knowledge by listening to the Shrutis. The second is Manana (reflection) wherein the students think, analyze and make inferences. Third, is Nididhyāsana in which the students apply the knowledge in their real life.
The move from a walled garden type Learning Management Systems (LMS) to open environments (like Facebook) forces us to adapt new teaching ways. This article offers a brief review of the use of Facebook groups in learning, describes the experience of using Facebook groups in an academic institute, explains the considerations for choosing the type of group and provides detailed technical ...