Unravelling Facebook: a pedagogical tool during the Syrian crisis

Ramadan, Reem

doi:10.1080/02680513.2017.1345303

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“…Existing research findings indicated that online remote teaching has been reported for equal and inclusive education in rural areas in various countries [11][12][13]. A second mode of remote teaching was also applied when schools are closed or inaccessible due to a natural disaster [14,15] or other emergency, for example the war crisis in Syria [16].…”

Section: Emergency Remote Teachingmentioning

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Shifting to Emergency Remote Teaching Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Investigation of Greek Teachers’ Beliefs and Experiences

Jimoyiannis

Koukis

Tsiotakis

2021

Communications in Computer and Information Science

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During schools' closure, due to the pandemic of COVID-19, teachers around the globe were forced to transfer their instruction on-line. They were facing a range of barriers and difficulties to plan and provide online remote teaching to their students. This paper reports on a study exploring Greek primary and secondary education teachers' views about emergency remote teaching and elearning. The survey conducted in May 2020, just after schools' reopening in Greece. A total of 694 K-12 teachers responded to an online questionnaire. The preliminary findings of data analysis showed that the majority of the participants perceived the pandemic as a turning point with regards to the role of digital technologies and e-learning in the schools. On the other hand, we identified teachers' needs for professional development and support, in terms of learning design abilities necessary to integrate synchronous and asynchronous learning in both, online and physical, classrooms.

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Section: Emergency Remote Teachingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Shifting to Emergency Remote Teaching Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Investigation of Greek Teachers’ Beliefs and Experiences

Jimoyiannis

Koukis

Tsiotakis

2021

Communications in Computer and Information Science

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“…The first limitation identified is the fact that most of the studies have been done on cohorts of pupils, students or teachers in only one institution (Alkhateeb 2015, Alm 2017, Amasha 2017, Forkosh-Baruch et al 2017, Hershkovitz et al 2015, Balcikanli 2015, Blonder 2015, Liu 2016, Skendžić&Devčić 2017. Larger cohorts with differences in the type of perception have been used only in some of the studies presented in our study (Ali 2017, Anwar et al 2017, Dhir et al 2016, Bharucha 2018, Nkhoma et al 2015, Ramadan 2017. The results would be more extensive and conclusive if they were done on larger cohorts of students and teachers from multiple institutions.…”

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confidence: 75%

“…Pickering (2016) suggests that Facebook can play an important role in sustaining students for their exam preparation or evaluation. Ramadan (2017) pleads for Facebook as a promising pedagogical tool which needs all the attention in the Arab countries. The researcher recommends the integration of Facebook as a learning resource in the Arab universities.…”

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Insights on the Use of Facebook in Educational Context - a Systematic Review (2015-2018)

Pascariu

Ceobanu

2019

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Despite its overwhelming popularity as the leading social network site in the past few years, the educational value that Facebook provides has not been fully determined, and results are still contradictory. Moreover, systematic reviews about the educational usage of Facebook are still lacking some aspects. This article provides a critical overview of the international studies focusing on Facebook as educational environment, carried out in order to examine if and how this popular social network may contribute to teaching and learning within formal education. The authors conducted a comprehensive search that identified 43 relevant articles, subsequently analysed according to a list of guidelines created especially for this study. Thus, only empirical studies published between 2015 and 2018 in peer reviewed journals have been considered for this review. The studies included present the ways in which Facebook can be used in education, and focuses on the perception of pupils, students and teachers in this respect. Overall, our study found that Facebook is partially implemented in education, depending on the subject taught. Finally we provide suggestions and indications for future research .

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“…The first paper in this issue is by Reem Ramadan from the Faculty of Economics, Damascus University, Syria. In some respects her paper, entitled Unravelling Facebook: a pedagogical tool during the Syrian crisis (Ramadan, 2017) continues from an earlier paper published in Open Learning, entitled Syrians' acceptance of digital lectures: a case study (Ramadan, 2016). Ramadan's paper is striking, since it presents a perspective on how technology can facilitate teaching and learning in a time of war and conflict.…”

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confidence: 95%

Different perspectives on evaluation

Douce

2017

Open Learning: The Journal of Open, Distance and e-Learning

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Unravelling Facebook: a pedagogical tool during the Syrian crisis

Cited by 16 publications

References 41 publications

Shifting to Emergency Remote Teaching Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Investigation of Greek Teachers’ Beliefs and Experiences

Shifting to Emergency Remote Teaching Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Investigation of Greek Teachers’ Beliefs and Experiences

Insights on the Use of Facebook in Educational Context - a Systematic Review (2015-2018)

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