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Download PDF by Mike Kent: An Education in Facebook?: Higher Education and the World’s

By Mike Kent

ISBN-10: 041571317X

ISBN-13: 9780415713177

An schooling in Facebook? examines and evaluations the function of fb within the evolving panorama of upper schooling. now and then a mandated a part of school room use, at others an off-the-cuff community for college students, fb has develop into an inevitable portion of university lifestyles, performing alternately as an advertisements, recruitment and studying device. yet what occurs whilst educators use a company product, which exists outdoor of the keep an eye on of universities, to teach students?

An schooling in Facebook? presents a large dialogue of the problems educators are already dealing with on collage campuses all over the world, fairly in components akin to privateness, copyright and social media etiquette. by way of reading present makes use of of fb in collage settings, this publication bargains either an intensive analytical critique in addition to functional suggestion for educators and directors seeking to locate how one can thoughtfully combine fb and different electronic conversation instruments into their study rooms and campuses.

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Ranieri, M. (2013). Is it a tool suitable for learning? A critical review of the literature on Facebook as a technology-enhanced learning environment. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 29(6), 487–504. “We Use Facebook Chat in Lectures” • 31 Massey, D. (2005). For space. London: Sage. , & Owens, M. (2009). Betwixt spaces: Student accounts of turning point experiences in the first-year transition. Studies in Higher Education, 34(1), 37–54. , & Bry, F. (2011). Introducing Backstage—a digital backchannel for large class lectures.

What can we do to respond to this? We all learn at different paces, but currently we cannot stop or pause the lecturer midpoint like we can with a YouTube video or with demand TV. The use of the Group as a backchannel may be seen as incoherent discourse because there is no lecturer involvement, but in this case it is a useful support mechanism and offers more to the students than does the structured lecture. The flip side of this use of the Group is that the students may find the information they need from the backchannel, “We Use Facebook Chat in Lectures” • 27 but at what loss?

I made an assumption that the remaining fans would be prospective students. This is likely to be an overestimate and some of these fans may have liked the page for other reasons, but it seems unlikely that there would have been many who would have liked the page for alternative reasons. At some point recently, Facebook stopped making it possible to download a full list of fans for a page, and this has made a comparison across all three years impossible. 16 • Pearce Case Study—Foundation Centre on Facebook My initial proposal for establishing the page suggested that it could create an online community and emphasized three key audiences: prospective students, current students and alumni.

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