Like our page: using Facebook to support first year students in their transition to higher education. A practice report

Greg Jenkins; Kenneth Lyons; Ruth Bridgstock; Lauren Carr

doi:10.5204/intjfyhe.v3i2.131

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Like our page: using Facebook to support first year students in their transition to higher education. A practice report

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Like our page: using Facebook to support first year students in their transition to higher education. A practice report

Greg Jenkins, Kenneth Lyons, Ruth Bridgstock and Lauren Carr

International Journal of the First Year in Higher Education, Vol.3(2), pp.65-72

2012

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5204/intjfyhe.v3i2.131

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Curriculum and Pedagogy

Specialist Studies in Education

Education Systems

transition pedagogy

creative industires

social media

student engagement

curriculum design

ICT

student identity

HERN

Facebook is approaching ubiquity in the social habits and practice of many students. However, its use in higher education has been criticised (Maranto & Barton, 2010) because it can remove or blur academic boundaries. Despite these concerns, there is strong potential to use Facebook to support new students to communicate and interact with each other (Cheung, Chiu, & Lee, 2010). This paper shows how Facebook can be used by teaching staff to communicate more effectively with students. Further, it shows how it can provide a way to represent and include beginning students' thoughts, opinions and feedback as an element of the learning design and responsive feed-forward into lectures and tutorial activities. We demonstrate how an embedded social media strategy can be used to complement and enhance the first year curriculum experience by functioning as a transition device for student support and activating Kift's (2009) organising principles for first year curriculum design.

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Title: Like our page: using Facebook to support first year students in their transition to higher education. A practice report
Authors: Greg Jenkins (Author) - Queensland University of Technology
Kenneth Lyons (Author) - Queensland University of Technology
Ruth Bridgstock (Author) - Queensland University of Technology
Lauren Carr (Author) - Queensland University of Technology
Publication details: International Journal of the First Year in Higher Education, Vol.3(2), pp.65-72
Publisher: Queensland University of Technology
Date published: 2012
DOI: 10.5204/intjfyhe.v3i2.131
ISSN: 1838-2959
Organisation Unit: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Creative Industries - Legacy
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99451119702621
Output Type: Journal article

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