Study on Social Media Usage in

Active Learning Activities for Higher

Education Present by :

Wan Sazli Nasaruddin Saifudin (UTeM)

Haryati Yaacob (USIM)

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Study on Social Media Usage in Active Learning Activities for Higher Education by Wan Sazli Nasaruddin (UTeM) & Haryati Yaacob (USIM) is licensed under a Creative

Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Outline

1. Research Gap

2. Research Objective

3. Research Questions

4. Research Methods

5. Main Findings

Research Gap

• LMS

• AL

• Now = Social Media

Research Objective

• To study the used of social media among lectures and students in Malaysian universities.

• To investigate the effectiveness of social media and traditional LMS for supporting Interactive Lecture (IL) & Active Learning (AL) activities.

Research Questions

1. What social media application used by lecturer?

2. How do our lecturer currently use social media?

3. Do they want to use social media to support learning activities?

4. Do they believe that social media can enhance their teaching and learning experience?

5. Do they have the infrastructure/capabilities to use social media for active lecture?

Research Method

• Observation

▫ Based on self experience and colleague practice

• Online questionnaire

▫ Google Form

• Interview

▫ Unformed session interview among faculty colleague.

Main Findings

• 51 academic respondents from various designation.

Main Findings

• 60.8 % respondent from UTeM,

• 27.5 % respondent from USIM,

• UPM, UKM, UIAM, UTAR, UITM, UTM, MMU

Main Findings

• 88.2% responder practice AL.

Main Findings

• Only 78.4% responder practice an online AL

Main Findings

• Majority (90.2%) responder do think social media can help in practicing AL effectively?

Main Findings

• 90.2% (Whatsapp) , 76.5% (Facebook) , 49% (Telegram)

Main Findings

• We do use social media often…

Main Findings

• Up to 86.3% responder are using social media to interact with students.

Main Findings

• Activities, conducted via social media

Main Findings

• Fast & easy, reliable & more engaging

Main Findings

• Majority, go towards mobile now days…

Main Findings

• Most (82.9%) of the respondent, aware their students using social media for study purpose.

Main Findings

• Up to 96.2% acknowledge the request from their students, to communicate using media social application.

Main Findings

• Internet access is really bad

• Not ready to use it with students

• I use online system provided by my Institution such as GOALS and MyLinE, it is more than enough.

• To much freedom without any learning environment

• To avoid abuse; some students may not understand the word "privacy".

• Only if they can be professional or more mature, over time, then I will entertain.

Main Findings

Main Findings

• Our LMS in supporting AL, majority at average.

Main Findings

• 29.4% need social media integration in LMS now.

Main Findings

• What are the major concerns or problems that you have when using existing LMS in your university?

▫ The students are not interested with the display of the system making only a few access it

▫ Students rarely check the content of LMS except to get the lecture note. Difficult to make announcement or get feedback. The amount of content is limited.

▫ Slow network connection and not that user-friendly.

Main Findings

• Suggestion for improvement on current LMS used at your university?

▫ make it more lively, personalized and engage to our young generation.

▫ If social media is included in LMS, privacy concerns must be addressed

▫ Improve on GUI and ability on encourage interactivity

▫ To be supported with features as in MOOC

▫ Allow live chat like FB did

▫ Integrate with app such as Whatsapp, telegram and Facebook, such that students and lecturer can be communicated anywhere & anytime.

Research Questions

1. What social media application used by lecturer?

2. How do our lecturer currently use social media?

3. Do they want to use social media to support learning activities?

4. Do they believe that social media can enhance their teaching and learning experience?

5. Do they have the infrastructure/capabilities to use social media for active lecture?

Whatsapp , Facebook, Telegram

Mobile devices (smartphone/tab)

Yes

Yes

Yes

Conclusions

1. IPT must promote/practice learning in social media

2. There are room for future studies on pedagogical and learning style

3. Empower AL via social media mobile LMS

Next…

1. More research…

2. The use (design & develop, new) media social friendly + mobile friendly LMS.

3. Upgrade existing LMS to be more mobile friendly / responsive.

and also, special thank to Telegram, Facebook & Whatsapp