Frequency of accessing facebook and learning effectiveness perceptions among students of Berjaya University College of hospitality
Wong, Dominic1, Siti Intan Nurdiana Wong2.
Without doubt, Facebook represents a huge potential audience. With over
1.44 billion monthly active users worldwide and 4.5 billion likes generated,
this powerful tool has definitely influenced most university students’ lives
especially in this generation. These students are called the ‘Digital
Generation’ as their lives revolve around the Internet and social media.
However, since Facebook was built largely for recreational purposes, it is not
clear how it can contribute towards learning, if at all. Hence, the main aim of
the study is to determine the frequency in accessing Facebook and the
learning effectiveness among a sample of students from BERJAYA University
College of Hospitality. In addition to traditional lectures and tutorials, an online
group was created in Facebook to facilitate communication and academic
sharing and the students’ feedback was gathered for analysis. In a nutshell,
this research does not show evidence of association between frequency of
accessing Facebook and their learning effectiveness.
Affiliation:
- Tunku Abdul Rahman University College, Malaysia
- Berjaya University College of Hospitality, Malaysia
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