Students' engagement on Facebook in undergraduate business courses: an experimental study

Tala Talaei Khoei; Suchada Vichitvanichphong; Babak Abedin; Ahmad Reza Ghapanchi; Behnam Abedin

doi:10.1504/IJKL.2015.077534

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Students' engagement on Facebook in undergraduate business courses: an experimental study

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Students' engagement on Facebook in undergraduate business courses: an experimental study

Tala Talaei Khoei, Suchada Vichitvanichphong, Babak Abedin, Ahmad Reza Ghapanchi and Behnam Abedin

International Journal of Knowledge and Learning, Vol.10(4)

2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1504/IJKL.2015.077534

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Library and Information Studies

Higher Education

student engagement

social networking sites

SNS

online learning

experimental study

Facebook

undergraduate courses

business education

e-learning

learning context

communication channels

discussion boards

There has been extensive research on the use of social networking sites, particularly Facebook, for enhancing student engagement. However, a detailed discussion on contexts has been largely ignored. The main objective of this paper is to examine the role of learning context in the success of student engagement by the use of social networking sites. The study has conducted three experiments and deployed Facebook as a communication channel and a discussion board in a first-year undergraduate business course, in a third-year information and communication technology (ICT) subject and in an executive MBA course. This research has compared the student engagement in mentioned contexts based on five principles of engagement. The paper presents lessons learned from these experiments that can be used by faculty and administrators in universities and educational institutes to design contexts in which social networking sites can achieve their potentials in improving student engagement and their overall academic experience.

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Title: Students' engagement on Facebook in undergraduate business courses: an experimental study
Authors: Tala Talaei Khoei (Author) - Azad Mashad University, Iran
Suchada Vichitvanichphong (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Science, Health, Education and Engineering
Babak Abedin (Author) - University of Technology Sydney
Ahmad Reza Ghapanchi (Author) - Isfahan University, Iran
Behnam Abedin (Author) - University of Tehran
Publication details: International Journal of Knowledge and Learning, Vol.10(4)
Publisher: Inderscience Publishers
Date published: 2015
DOI: 10.1504/IJKL.2015.077534
ISSN: 1741-1009
Organisation Unit: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; USC Business School - Legacy
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99451200102621
Output Type: Journal article

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