Ramona BRAN Laurentiu TIRU Gabriela GROSSECK West University of Timisoara Romania WCES 2011 photo credit: http://chicagobreakingbusiness.com/files/2010/08/ct-biz-facebook-wall aug25.jpg
Ramona BRANLaurentiu TIRU
Gabriela GROSSECK
West University of TimisoaraRomaniaWCES 2011
photo credit: http://chicagobreakingbusiness.com/files/2010/08/ct-biz-facebook-wall-aug25.jpg
agenda The social network of Facebook
Using Facebook in education
- the students’ and teachers’ perception Study methodology
- procedures and data sources Results and discussions
Conclusionsphoto credit: http://jess3.com/
Facebook was launched by Harvard StudentMark Zuckerberg and his roommatesin February 2004. It turn a profit late 2009.
In the spring of 2010 Facebook becomethe most visited site in the US,
even surpassing Google.
Facebook Games Farm Villeclaimed cover 85 mil. active users in 2010.
In 2010 Mark Zuckerberg is the Person of the Year.
almost 596.371.760 users worldwide
Credits: Amodiovalerio Verde / digitalsurgeons
Romania 2.4 MIO
Europe in 49 countries 152.5 MIO
People that are using mobile Facebook
(30% login via mobile devices) are TWICE
more active than non mobile users
create a profile (complete with personal information such as home address, mobile phone number, interests, religious views, relationship status etc.)designate other users as friendssend private messagesjoin groupspost and /or tag pictures and leave comments on these pictures as well as on either a group or an individual’s wallinstall and use third-party applications based on the Facebook platform (such as games, polls and quizzes)create pages for different events
USERS CAN:
Student’s perception
foster positive relationships
participate actively
get involved
multiple social interactions
+ attitude towards learning
interpersonal intelligence
critical thoughts
create own learning path
cultivate tolerance
respect for diversity
consolidate self-confidence and self-esteem
communicate with the teacher (??!)photo credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/hikingartist/
CHANGE
FACING CHALLENGES
engaged in student culture
constructive educational outcomes
practicea differential pedagogy calibrate didactic activities
accept the studentas an interactive partner
perform efficient teaching mentoring
interconnect learning experiencesphoto credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/hikingartist/http://www.havefunteaching.com/images/Facebook-For-Teachers.jpg
Looking for solutions
Online survey
Similar studies
Romanian experience (there is no representative study!)
Five-point scale(1=strongly disagree
5=strongly agree)
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Frequency Percent Valid Percent
Cumulative Percent
Valid In the morning (08.00 - 12.00) 7 5,3 5,3 5,3
In the afternoon(14.00 - 18.00) 22 16,8 16,8 22,1
At lunchtime (12.00 - 14.00) 7 5,3 5,3 27,5
In the early morning (06:00 - 08.00) 1 ,8 ,8 28,2
At night (after 22.00) 13 9,9 9,9 38,2
In the evening (18.00 - 22.00) 81 61,8 61,8 100,0
Total 131 100,0 100,0
131 students(out of almost 300)
8.67 months79.4% male & 20.6% female
convenience sampleWhen
do you accessFacebook?
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Even if they use it for a short time, it seems important for us to underline the fact that they do use it daily (recurrently), which can
reveal a lot about a possible habit of using Facebook.
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(some) Educational aspectsof using Facebook
57.3%
students prefer the English version (44,3%)
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only a little over 10%
feel they belong to a community
33,6% of them have a hard time imagining life without Facebook
70% of the students believe Facebook is a “cheap” tool for promoting knowledge in HE
only 26,7% of the students perceive the use of Facebook in general, and of educational groups in particular, as important instruments of change in HE
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What we do NOT particularly appreciate is the fact that the evaluation process is not as flexible as we had expected and the teacher’s intervention is needed almost permanently on the platform.
This causes time management difficulties, especially since teachers need to adjust their feedback to each student.
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Although the majority of students claim the page of a subject / faculty adds credibility,
just a little over 20% rely on the explosion of the social media profile,while 13,7% think that teachers have to adapt
to this highly Personal Medium of Interaction.
[...] the general conclusion we have reached is: at present we cannot define/speak about aFacebook Student in Romania
(here “Student” means being preoccupiedwith aspects of his / her formal education)
Ramona BRANLaurentiu TIRU
Gabriela GROSSECK
West University of Timisoara Romania
Faculty of Sociology and Psychology
E-mail: [rbran] [ltaru] [ggrosseck] @socio.uvt.rophoto credit: http://mashable.com/2010/06/17/facebook-connect-fail/