A Study on the Role of Facebook in E-Learning

Khan, Sana Bashir; Bakhsh, Sheikh Tahir

doi:10.5815/ijeme.2015.05.01

Cited by 7 publications

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“…When students did use Facebook for academic purposes, it was usually aimed at practical information such as finding out when and where lectures were being held, assessment delivery information and coping with other demands of one's degree course [12]. Khan and Bakhsh [13] also found value in the use of Facebook for collaboration and discussion, but warned of the challenge of keeping discussion on topic. On the other hand student perception of LMSs is as an information resource only.…”

Section: A Student Views On Facebook and Lmsmentioning

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Heuristic Evaluation of the use of Blackboard & Facebook Groups in Computing Higher Education

Carmichael¹,

MacEachen²

2017

IJMECS

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Abstract-The features of social media sites make them potentially effective as a learning platform for student communication and collaboration in higher education. Moreover it has become apparent that student Facebook users have been repurposing its features to fit their academic requirements. This study aims to determine if Facebook Groups and the Blackboard Learning Management System (LMS) can enhance the learner experience, and if so, in what way. The study made use of a heuristic evaluation with an educationally relevant criteria set [1]. The results, amongst other things, indicate that Facebook Groups are more useful for peer-to-peer communication than Blackboard, probably due to the notification system in Facebook. Analysis indicated that in some instances the strengths and weaknesses of Blackboard and Facebook were complementary and therefore could, arguably, improve the overall student experience.

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Section: A Student Views On Facebook and Lmsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Heuristic Evaluation of the use of Blackboard & Facebook Groups in Computing Higher Education

Carmichael¹,

MacEachen²

2017

IJMECS

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“…In most of these theories, social interaction is seen to play a critical role in the process of learning and cognition. Social media, such as Facebook, has helped in providing the platform for easy and convenient social interactions as well as facilitate and support online learning (Khan & Bakhsh, 2015).…”

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Technology-Embedded Hybrid Learning

Behzad¹,

Adnan²,

Malik³

et al. 2022

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With the rapid surge in technological advancements, an equal amount of investment in technology-embedded teaching has become vital to pace up with the ongoing educational needs. Distance education has evolved from the era of postal services to the use of ICT tools in current times. With the aid of globally updated content across the board, technology usage ensures all students receive equal attention without any discrimination. Importantly, web-based teaching allows all kind of students to learn at their own pace, without the fear of being judged, including professionals who can learn remotely without disturbing their job schedules. Having web-based content allows low-cost and robust implementation of the content upgradation. An improved, yet effective, version of the education using such tools is Hybrid Learning (HL). This learning mode aims to provide luxurious reinforcement to its legitimate candidates while maintaining the quality standards of various elements. Incorporated with both traditional and distance learning methods, along with exploiting social media tools for increased comfort level and peer-to-peer collaboration, HL ultimately facilitates the end user and educational setup. The structure of such a hybrid model is realized by delivering the study material via a learning management system (LMS) designed in compliance with quality standards, which is one of the fundamental tackling techniques for controlling quality constraints. In this paper, we present the recently piloted project by COMSATS University Islamabad (previously known as COMSATS Institute of Information Technology) which is driven by technology-embedded teaching model. This model is an amalgam of the traditional class room model with the aid of state-of-the-art online learning technologies. The students are enrolled as full-time students, with all the courses in traditional classroom mode, except one course offered as hybrid course. This globally adapted model helps the students to benefit from both face-to-face learning as well as gaining hands-on experience on technology-enriched education model providing flexibility of timings, learning pace, and boundaries. Our HL model is equipped with two major synchronous and asynchronous blocks. The synchronous block delivers real-time live interaction scenarios using discussion boards, thereby providing a face-to-face environment. Interactions via social network has witnessed equally surging improvement in the output performance. The asynchronous block refers to the lecture videos, slides and handouts, prepared by imminent professors, available 24/7 for students. To ensure quality output, our HL model follows the course learning outcomes (CLOs), and program learning outcomes (PLOs) as per international standards. As a proof of concept, we have deployed a mechanism at the end of each semester to verify the effectiveness of our model. This mechanism fundamentally surveys the satisfaction levels of all the students enrolled in the HL courses. With the surveys already conducted, a significant level of satisfaction has been noted. Extensive results from these surveys are presented in the paper to further validate the efficiency and robustness of our proposed HL model.

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“…We will build college-enterprise cooperation talent training base, an enterprise-set training base and an open talent training base. In addition, many studies show that the online course platform is not only beneficial to the dissemination of knowledge, but also can effectively promote students' learning [12][13][14][15][16]. Therefore, making full use of the advantages of online education, we build an expert database and an online course resource database for the training system of shipping compound talents, which will provide important support for the shipping compound talents training system.…”

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Construction of Interdisciplinary Training Platform for Shipping Talents

Ying¹,

Chen²,

Zhang³

et al. 2021

Proceedings of the International Conference on Economics, Law and Education Research (ELER 2021)

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In order to train high-quality shipping talents, solve the problem of lack of shipping talents and promote the development of shipping industry, this paper suggest the construction of interdisciplinary training platform for shipping compound talents from the perspectives of enterprises, colleges and industries. The platform integrates various related high-quality educational resources, and has three different talent training bases according to different talent training modes, namely, college-enterprise cooperation training base, enterprise-set training base and open training base. In addition, the platform also has talent training expert database and online course resource library. In this paper, the general idea of building this training platform for shipping compound talents is introduced in detail, and the construction of three bases and two resource databases that constitute the platform is explained in detail. The construction of this platform is of great significance to promote the development of the high-level shipping talents training.

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A Study on the Role of Facebook in E-Learning

Cited by 7 publications

References 34 publications

Heuristic Evaluation of the use of Blackboard & Facebook Groups in Computing Higher Education

Heuristic Evaluation of the use of Blackboard & Facebook Groups in Computing Higher Education

Technology-Embedded Hybrid Learning

Construction of Interdisciplinary Training Platform for Shipping Talents

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