Advantage And Disadvantage Of Facebook

Alonso, López, Manrique, and Viñes (2005) concluded that a blended approach that combines self-paced learning, live e-learning, and face-to-face classroom learning is one of the most efficient teaching models. With integrating the web into the education system, centralized classroom-based education has shifted towards distributed e-learning classes in which learning is being facilitated anytime and anywhere. Williams (2002) defined that a blended approach is face to face and online learning combined. Vaughan (2007) suggested that a blended approach provides an opportunity to combine traditional teaching approaches and learning technologies, virtual and physical instruction, and face-to-face learning activities. A blended approach is also called a hybrid model that allows for a significant amount of learning activities to be online, reduces face to face learning time, and promotes self-directed learning for students (Garrison, Kanuka, &Hawes, 2002; Vaughan, 2007). A blended approach involves redesigning extensive courses to include some traditional aspects, and offer an amount of distance education.

Thus, the main flaw of using an online instruction is students and teachers have limited interactions and communications. As a result, it is necessary for teachers and course developers to construct a community and to help everyone to participate in the course, in order to overcome this main flaw of virtual learning and improve its efficiency.

Blended learning is malleable. It can easily be reformed and adjusted to suit many different learning styles and many different grade levels. For example, second graders may use reader software if they are struggling with dyslexia. Adults may use the same software if they are auditory learners to follow along when reading a long article on a computer screen. The hypothesis of this paper is that blended learning is a viable solution to stalling education methods because technology has the flexibility, real-world connection, and active engagement that supports successful learning.

Facebook is one of the most used Social Media used by college students, and high school students. As stated in the article “The Reasons for Non-Use of Social Net-working Websites by University Students” , “Facebook’s statistics report that there are 901 million monthly active users who create

Jon Russell once said, “Social Media presents a huge opportunity for schools, universities and other educational organizations to reach out and connect with students and prospective students”. With no doubt, social media has influenced the way students are educated today. For those of you who do not know the exact definition of social media, the social media means ways of sharing information, opinions, images, videos using the Internet, especially social networking sites. Because of the Internet, people started finding ways to socialize through social websites and exchange information. Popular social network on the Internet such as YouTube became a sensation for me ever since I became a student in college. Today social media can be used for educational purposes. The ways social media is changing education has affected how the students express themselves, behave, and interact with each other.

Many students agree that social networking is an essential tool in education today. Feedback has become a vital tool amongst students and teachers in networking whether it’s Facebook, Myspace, or Twitter (Carey, n.d.). In a recent study, it stated that 59% of students who belong to “social networking sites” admitted that when there on the Internet they explore topics to communicate about such as college preparation and occupations. Another study shows that 50% of students use social networking to improve on their studies and teachers have found that this has helped students become more successful in their reading and writing vocabulary (“Social,”

Social media are the most ordinarily used media to connect with the world because of its many advantages and benefits. Many students are already involved in social networks and using it their daily activities including educational purposes. Social media have changed the ways of learning and providing pieces of information on education. It has been used in education nowadays more than ever and showing beneficial results out of that. Uses of social media are increasing continuously in education and both students and educators are becoming dependent on it. The reason behind this is, it is simple to access, effortless to use and easy availability. Among many of the advantages of social media in education, applying it for communication purposes, sharing class materials, files etc. for classroom projects as well as uses of QR codes are some of the leading ones.

While there are some applications designed specifically for educational communication, such as Class Dojo, I selected Facebook for several reasons. First, the majority of students are already using it as is visible with an observation of students before and after class and during breaks and this phenomenon transcends age and language group. Students from Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America, young and middle aged are already frequenting the Facebook world, but in their first language. Miron and Ravid (2014), in their Facebook Groups as an Academic Teaching Aid: Case

With such enormous progress in Mobile networks and the increase in telecommunication, the eLearning features have developed, especially when it comes to the use of smart phones, tablets as well as other devices being used in such kind of learning. As a result, social media technology has come a long way in transforming online

It is not surprising that YouTube and Facebook are the most used social media out there. They are also the fastest way to convey a message, and 97% of the population is using Facebook (DeMers, 2014). With that said, Social media is the ideal way to spread the word about this diabetes campaign. “To some entrepreneurs, social media marketing is the “next big thing,” a temporary yet powerful fad that must be taken advantage of while it’s still in the spotlight” DeMers, 2014, para. 1.). Social media is so powerful that it dives the path for many public health campaigns’ marketing plans. Social media can be manipulated to reach the desired group or an entire population, and it has the potential to help the campaign to reach its desired goals.

In tertiary institutions, students may have limited classroom contact hours but they need to rapidly increase their knowledge and skills. They might not be able to meet and consult their lecturers as much as they want or even have limited time to engage in group discussion especially for the working adults. Therefore, blended learning offers solution to this issue by allowing both educators and learners to interact in virtual environment without having to be at the same place, at the same time for the interaction to take place. This notion is supported by Sethy (2008) who stated that educators have considered the needs for social interaction and collaboration by adding human interaction to online learning which later helps in the learning

This paper discusses a study about using a Facebook page in English. It investigates what Iraqi students gain from interacting in English on the page in an EFL context. For data collection, an online questionnaire of ten multiple-choice and open-ended questions and items was sent to the participants, who are college students or graduate students studying English. In total, 35 participants responded to the questionnaire. Also, four participants and one teacher were randomly selected for phone interviews. For data analysis, mixed methods analysis was conducted since the data were qualitative and qualitative in nature. For the qualitative data analysis, the “grounded” approach was followed to find “patterns” or “themes”, and a priori approach

As the 21st century has confronted us with the technological revolution and “change [has become] the hallmark of our time ”, we have had to adapt in almost all areas of life. It is only logical that the education sector has also experienced innumerable adjustments. The combination of trying to maintain the classical face-to-face concept of teaching yet integrating a technological aspect has come to coin the term ‘blended learning’. There are many discussions and disputes as this phenomenon has come about as to what blended learning actually involves and what is its fixed definition as outlined by Driscoll’s four blended learning concepts. For the purpose of this essay I will be referring to the mix and combination of face-to-face tutorial with any form of web-based or instructional technology (from collaborative learning, audio, video, interactive whiteboards to online platforms). I will be analysing the effects of blended learning in the pedagogical process in terms of time-efficiency, increased outreach for language learning opportunities, motivation and autonomous learning, learner and personality types and crucially, in language learning increased accessibility of “Ethnographic methods such as the use of ‘authentic’ material and contact with native speakers ”.

Technology has changed the world and the way tasks and duties are executed. The education sector is not spared by the changing and advancing technology since students are now enjoying a fully virtual education system. The system is also called distance learning where students do not need to visit the institution physical throughout their courses. It has been a routine of late that in their pajamas, students sleep late or wake up every morning to discussion boards to respond to other students who they have never met. They are graded and assessed how they are completing their tasks by instructors they have never met before. The American government has allocated more funds to the educational system and specifically the Distance learning system so that it can be available to more people (Wuensch, Aziz, Ozan, Kishore & Tabrizi, 2006). Many people have embraced the new approach due to its cheapness comfort and flexibility, but others have refrained. As many are embracing the distance learning those

Lecturers were allowed to choose a variety of commonly used blended teaching tools such as blogs or forum, online laboratory experiments, discussion groups, videos, and recorded videocast. They also had the liberty to pick the right mix of online and offline time, which may vary from 20% to 80% online. These flexibilities were given to the lecturers because they were teaching different disciplines as one blended teaching technique may be suitable for one discipline may not be so for another. However, lecturers had to report to the researchers which teaching technique(s) they used and the percent of the online and offline mix. This information is useful in the analysis.