ERIC Number: EJ1103116
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2016
Pages: 7
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ISSN: ISSN-2332-3205
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The Facebook-in-Action: Challenging, Harnessing and Enhancing Students Class Assignments and Projects
Saifudin, Adam Mohd; Yacob, Aizan; Saad, Rohaizah
Universal Journal of Educational Research, v4 n6 p1259-1265 2016
Issues of universities students harnessing and capitalizing the usage of Facebook for their own learning capabilities and effective thinking is always the focus of education scholars, in assessing the quality class assignments and projects produced by them. Therefore, Facebook is now becoming unbearable influence since the internet activation in the past few years, almost totally interconnected the information sharing and needs among those students. In this action research, the researchers explore the influence and the active usage of Facebook whether this social media networking is confirmed challenging, enhancing and harnessing the learning capabilities and effective thinking among the university students. Thus they could produce quality class assignments and projects under the supervision of their lecturer concerned.
Descriptors: Social Media, College Students, Social Networks, Action Research, Assignments, Student Projects, Student Surveys, Questionnaires, Foreign Countries, Telecommunications, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Interviews
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Malaysia
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