herbert shiu joseph fong jeanne lam. introduction facebook features facebook as an education...
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a feasibility study of using social networking websites, in particular Facebook, for conducting courses as a replacement of expensive traditional electronic learning platforms
Internet has become a necessity of modern people for communication and information sharing purposes
Facebook ◦ was introduced in 2006◦ A social networking website◦ ¼ Internet users are active Facebook users◦ Can be accessed via all web browers and devices
Free – free of charge Group – users can be divided into groups Page – create Facebook pages for particular
organizations Privacy – it is possible to set control
privileges of individual items Notifications – supports user notifications of
all updates to items Photo albums – supports user level and
group level photo albums
Discussions – supports discussions with respect to a message, a photo, a photo album
Emails – supports internal emails between any two Facebook users
Events – supports event managements User main page – shows all updates Chatting – supports real time chatting User defined software – software developers
can develop Activity log – all operations are logged
User creations◦ registration with Facebook with preferably university email accounts
Course preparations◦ create a Facebook page for each course
Teaching materials preparation◦ Convert PowerPoint files into Facebook photo albums which can be
accessed with various devices◦ Post links of videos or other course materials to the course Facebook page
Conducting lectures and tutorials◦ Can present the original PowerPoint files or Facebook photo albums◦ Use the discussions for Facebook albums as a discussion platform
Discussions◦ Facebook notifies users for all changes related to the course◦ Users can add comments to any materials posted on the course Facebook
page for discussions Assessments
◦ Software developers can develop Facebook applications with Facebook API for assessments and there are Facebook applications for creating quizzes
the use of Facebook for education have the following advantages:◦ true cross platforms and cross devices, as almost
all computers and mobile devices support Facebook,
◦ easy distributions of course teaching materials,◦ supporting blog-like discussion on individual
items,◦ supporting online quizzes as assessments, and◦ user friendliness as no training is required