Using a Facebook closed-group as part of an online course

Daniyar Sapargaliyev

2014

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DOI 10.1504/ijil.2014.064732
Data confidence 70 medium
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Abstract

This paper introduces the results of survey among international students using Facebook closed-group as part of an online course. We posted learning materials of one session from online course: “Developing teachers’ critical thinking through educational designing” on Facebook and integrated it with platform Moodle. Two groups of students studied during two semesters the online course materials of six sessions. We specifically created Facebook closed-group to offer students to use not only PCs, but also mobile devices to access online course. After completion of the course, we asked students (n = 20) to evaluate using Facebook closed-group for learning. The findings showed that some students indicate imperfect organisation of course materials on Facebook. Nevertheless, majority of students noted the positive role of Facebook in the development of relationships between each other.