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“I see smart people!”: Using Facebook to supplement cognitive and affective learning in the university mass lecture
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, West Virginia University, Department of Communication Studies Armstrong Hall ; , Georgia Southern University, College of Education

Internet and Higher Education Volume 23, Number 1, ISSN 1096-7516 Publisher: Elsevier Ltd

Abstract

Mass lecture courses are a mainstay in university instruction despite their limitations regarding student engagement and resultant learning outcomes. Out-of-class communications and learning management systems have been developed to address these limitations, but the former is resource-intensive and the latter is often viewed as an administrative rather than pedagogical aid. Facebook groups have proven to be useful and persistent spaces for connecting individuals around innumerable topics of interest. In this study, a course-specific Facebook group was created for an introductory mass media course at a large mid-Atlantic university to serve as a supplemental (and voluntary) space for course content discussions. End-of-the semester grades of the Facebook group users were significantly higher than the non-users,

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Bowman, N.D. & Akcaoglu, M. (2014). “I see smart people!”: Using Facebook to supplement cognitive and affective learning in the university mass lecture. Internet and Higher Education, 23(1), 1-8. Elsevier Ltd. Retrieved March 28, 2024 from .

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Full text is availabe on Science Direct: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.iheduc.2014.05.003

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