Harnessing Facebook for Student Engagement in Accounting Education: Guiding Principles for Accounting Students and Educators

Stone, Gerard; Fiedler, Brenton; Kandunias, Chris

doi:10.1080/09639284.2014.908730

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“…According to Kuh , active participation of students in the learning process is one of the requirements of learning. The pedagogical potential of Facebook pages that are designed academically can be seen only if students actively participate in discussions and resource sharing . In addition, there are studies indicating that some students prefer such environments at times of assessment .…”

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“…Some have analyzed the academic effects of Facebook within the scope of a subject/course/ field. In these studies, various Facebook groups have been created to teach information and communication technologies, pharmacy, physical sciences, finance, chemistry, mathematics, health studies, and foreign language [12,19,[32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40]. In addition, there are only a limited number of studies in literature on the use of Facebook in computer programming [41].…”

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“…Bosch concluded that students who do not ask questions/talk in the classroom environment ask many questions on Facebook about subjects and concepts, and participate in discussions. According to Stone et al , when instructors praise the comments/contributions of students and support them during discussions, students are encouraged more to participate. Li and Pitts suggest that Facebook may make important contributions to the communication between faculty members and students when used properly.…”

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Using Facebook to enhance learning experiences of students in computer programming at Introduction to Programming and Algorithm course

Özyurt

2016

Comp Applic In Engineering

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The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effect of using Facebook on enriching the learning experiences of students in programming learning. In another word, the aim of the study is to detect the reflections from the environment of programming learning where Facebook is used. The study was carried out within the scope of the Introduction to Programming and Algorithm course taught in the software engineering department of the technology faculty of a university in Turkey. Initially, a Facebook group was created to enrich classroom teaching. Sixty-three freshman engineering students taking the course and the faculty members of the department joined the group. The study was conducted for one semester in the fall semester of the 2014-2015 academic year. The Educational Usage of Facebook Scale (EUFS) and semi-structured interview form were used as data collection tools in the study. Quantitative data were descriptively analyzed while qualitative data were subjected to content analysis. The results obtained in this study show that Facebook has positive effects such as providing a rich content in programming learning, increasing extracurricular communication, offering a cooperative and collaborative learning environment, increasing motivation, and bringing different perspectives as well as negative effects such as causing distraction, decreasing face-to-face communication, and bringing about problems about expressing oneself. As a result, it is possible to assert that Facebook can be efficiently used to support classroom teaching strategies and enrich learning experiences in programming learning. ß

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Using Facebook to enhance learning experiences of students in computer programming at Introduction to Programming and Algorithm course

Özyurt

2016

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“…Different studies (Boulianne, 2014;Chang & Hwang, 2003) have demonstrated the use of technology in the field of accounting, as well as the positive effects of integrated technologies to accounting teaching (Lillie & Wygal, 2011;Rackliffe & Regland, 2016;Willis, 2016). Wireless devices such as Ipods have brought efficiency and efficacy to accounting students due to their portability (Richardson, Dellaportas, Perera & Richardson, 2013) and social networks, as Facebook, also have been used (Stone, Fiedler & Kandunias, 2014).…”

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The Use of A Serious Game and Academic Performance of Undergraduate Accounting Students: An Empirical Analysis

Malaquias¹,

Malaquias²,

Junior³

et al. 2018

Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education

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The literature on serious games (SGs) indicates that they are very useful tools to improve the teaching/learning process. In this paper, we analyze some potential benefits of a SG on academic performance of undergraduate accounting students. The database is comprised of scores obtained by students during an undergraduate discipline related with accounting history. The game was presented to the students during the academic semester of the discipline; they also developed an academic activity using the concepts of this game. The main results of the paper indicate that students who used the game and scored the maximum grade in this activity also registered higher indexes of academic performance in such discipline. These results reinforce the benefits of the SG to interact with undergraduate students and teach academic content.

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“…A considerable amount of literature is devoted to investigating the effects, motivations, and outcomes of social networking sites on different disciplines such as psychology, information technology, and sociology. The dimensions on which the previous studies examine the effects of social networking sites can be classified as follows: 1) social identity (e.g., Boyd & Heer 2006;Ellison, Steinfield, & Lampe 2007;Pempek, Yermolayeva, & Calvert 2009); 2) future career development (e.g., Hannon 2015;Heifetz 2015;Beach 2016;Escobedo 2017); and 3) academic performance (e.g., Mazer, Murphy, & Simonds 2007;Chu & Meulemans 2008;Gabre & Kumar 2012;Irwin, Ball, & Desbrwo 2012;McCorkle & McCorkle 2012;Mendez, Le, & Cruz 2012;Paul, Baker, & Cochran 2012;Stone, Fiedler, & Kandunias 2014).…”

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An Exploratory Study of HBCU Accounting and Other Business Students’ Perceptions and Usage of LinkedIn

Xia¹,

Chen²

2018

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We administer a survey to evaluate accounting and other business students’ perceptions and usage of the social networking site LinkedIn. The participants are students at historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs), who are underrepresented groups. Our research examines how LinkedIn shapes their social identity and establishes their self-presentation in a world of social networking. It also examines how students’ perceptions of LinkedIn benefit their future career development as well as interactive learning. The results of the survey reveal that LinkedIn is an invaluable social media tool for college students to present their social identity, network with professionals as a helpful source of career and job information. However, compared with business students, accounting students put less trust in the information obtained via professional communities on LinkedIn. Accounting students agree that LinkedIn is more distracting than helpful to students for academic work. Our study has strong implications for accounting students and other business students, as well as educators in HBCU settings.

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Harnessing Facebook for Student Engagement in Accounting Education: Guiding Principles for Accounting Students and Educators

Cited by 21 publications

References 64 publications

Using Facebook to enhance learning experiences of students in computer programming at Introduction to Programming and Algorithm course

Using Facebook to enhance learning experiences of students in computer programming at Introduction to Programming and Algorithm course

The Use of A Serious Game and Academic Performance of Undergraduate Accounting Students: An Empirical Analysis

An Exploratory Study of HBCU Accounting and Other Business Students’ Perceptions and Usage of LinkedIn

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