Advances in Teaching and Learning on Facebook in Higher Institutions

Facebook has now become the most popular and extensively used social networking site among students of institutions of higher education. This makes it a widespread tool for communication and exchange of ideas. Notable to that is an active research in determining the utility of Facebook as a compleme...

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Main Authors: Haruna Chiroma, Nor Liyana Mohd Shuib, Adamu I. Abubakar, Akram M. Zeki, Abdulsalam Ya'u Gital, Tutut Herawan, Jemal H. Abawajy
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Language:English
Published: IEEE 2017-01-01
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7795248/
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author Haruna Chiroma
Nor Liyana Mohd Shuib
Adamu I. Abubakar
Akram M. Zeki
Abdulsalam Ya'u Gital
Tutut Herawan
Jemal H. Abawajy
author_facet Haruna Chiroma
Nor Liyana Mohd Shuib
Adamu I. Abubakar
Akram M. Zeki
Abdulsalam Ya'u Gital
Tutut Herawan
Jemal H. Abawajy
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description Facebook has now become the most popular and extensively used social networking site among students of institutions of higher education. This makes it a widespread tool for communication and exchange of ideas. Notable to that is an active research in determining the utility of Facebook as a complementary tool in teaching and learning. The uses of the social networking sites especially, Facebook has been reported in a wide variety of results with respect to factors, such as students' learning performance, involvement, and acceptance, have been reported in the literature. This paper presents a comprehensive review of recent studies that employ Facebook as a tool for teaching and learning in institutions of higher education. We analyze the use of Facebook as a teaching and learning tool for various courses. Thereafter, its impacts on enhancing student learning outcomes as well as its negative impact on students' performance are evaluated. We also highlight the main limitations of the existing and previous studies. Future research directions for incorporating Facebook into the teaching and learning at institutions of higher education are suggested. This review is helpful to educators who plan to integrate Facebook into their teaching as well as to the researchers for further exploration of Facebook as a tool in teaching and learning.
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spelling doaj.art-55aa8247ea414b9f91429d3469edba2e2022-12-21T18:18:25ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362017-01-01548050010.1109/ACCESS.2016.26436827795248Advances in Teaching and Learning on Facebook in Higher InstitutionsHaruna Chiroma0Nor Liyana Mohd Shuib1Adamu I. Abubakar2Akram M. Zeki3Abdulsalam Ya'u Gital4Tutut Herawan5https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9262-9137Jemal H. Abawajy6Federal College of Education (Technical), Gombe, NigeriaInformation Systems Department, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, MalaysiaKulliyah of Information and Communication Technology, International Islamic University, MalaysiaKulliyah of Information and Communication Technology, International Islamic University, MalaysiaAbubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi, NigeriaAMCS Research Center, Yogyakarta, IndonesiaSchool of Information Technology, Deakin University, Geelong, VIC, AustraliaFacebook has now become the most popular and extensively used social networking site among students of institutions of higher education. This makes it a widespread tool for communication and exchange of ideas. Notable to that is an active research in determining the utility of Facebook as a complementary tool in teaching and learning. The uses of the social networking sites especially, Facebook has been reported in a wide variety of results with respect to factors, such as students' learning performance, involvement, and acceptance, have been reported in the literature. This paper presents a comprehensive review of recent studies that employ Facebook as a tool for teaching and learning in institutions of higher education. We analyze the use of Facebook as a teaching and learning tool for various courses. Thereafter, its impacts on enhancing student learning outcomes as well as its negative impact on students' performance are evaluated. We also highlight the main limitations of the existing and previous studies. Future research directions for incorporating Facebook into the teaching and learning at institutions of higher education are suggested. This review is helpful to educators who plan to integrate Facebook into their teaching as well as to the researchers for further exploration of Facebook as a tool in teaching and learning.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7795248/Social networking sitesFacebookteachinglearninghigher institutions
spellingShingle Haruna Chiroma
Nor Liyana Mohd Shuib
Adamu I. Abubakar
Akram M. Zeki
Abdulsalam Ya'u Gital
Tutut Herawan
Jemal H. Abawajy
Advances in Teaching and Learning on Facebook in Higher Institutions
IEEE Access
Social networking sites
Facebook
teaching
learning
higher institutions
title Advances in Teaching and Learning on Facebook in Higher Institutions
title_full Advances in Teaching and Learning on Facebook in Higher Institutions
title_fullStr Advances in Teaching and Learning on Facebook in Higher Institutions
title_full_unstemmed Advances in Teaching and Learning on Facebook in Higher Institutions
title_short Advances in Teaching and Learning on Facebook in Higher Institutions
title_sort advances in teaching and learning on facebook in higher institutions
topic Social networking sites
Facebook
teaching
learning
higher institutions
url https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7795248/
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