Toward Making Social Media Effective in our Classrooms: A 9-Point Method

Dublin Core

Title

Toward Making Social Media Effective in our Classrooms: A 9-Point Method

Subject

Social media
learning
teaching
methodology
multimedia

Description

There is absolutely no doubt that the social media have advanced into Tertiary Institution, but Instructors mostly use social media for personal reasons. This research explores the social media world and how teachers use social media in their classes, by conducting a mixed method research where open-ended questionnaires were given to lecturers and interviews were further conducted with some selected lecturers in order to assess how they use social media in their classes. The information collected was organized and used to teach part of a class in multimedia development course where they serve as the control group. A close-ended questionnaire was then administered to the control group at the end of the course and their level of satisfaction recorded. The remaining part of the class forms the experimental group and was taught using the researcher’s 9-point method of applying social media in the classroom; using the same questionnaire, their satisfaction level was recorded. The data collected on the student’s satisfaction level was analyzed using SPSS software version 20 and the result was that most of the teachers employ the social media for personal use, and that older teachers use less social media in education than their younger counterparts. High social media usage was found among both the teachers and students so also was the time spent on social media and a significant increase in satisfaction level was noticed among students of the experimental group.

Creator

Nawaila, Muhammad
Kanbul, Sezer
Uzunboylu, Huseyin

Source

International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies (iJIM); Vol. 12 No. 4 (2018); pp. 59-71
1865-7923

Publisher

International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE), Vienna, Austria

Date

2018-08-30

Rights

Copyright (c) 2018 Jesus Garcia, Muhammad Nawaila

Relation

Format

application/pdf

Language

eng

Type

info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article

Identifier

Citation

Muhammad Nawaila, Sezer Kanbul and Huseyin Uzunboylu, Toward Making Social Media Effective in our Classrooms: A 9-Point Method, International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE), Vienna, Austria, 2018, accessed November 8, 2024, https://igi.indrastra.com/items/show/1353

Social Bookmarking