Evaluating student's satisfaction of using social media through collaborative learning in higher education
Year: 2013
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: Social media have permeated all generations of Internet users, becoming a prominent communications tool and \nfound to be facilitating teaching and learning, particularly in the student community. Thus, academic \ninstitutions and faculty are increasingly using social networking sites, such as Facebook and LinkedIn, to \nconnect with students and to deliver instructional content. This has led to a rise in questions about the impact of \nsocial media for collaborative learning and the possibility of using it as an effective teaching tool. To learn \nmore about the student' satisfaction with social media usage for collaborative learning improvement between \nstudents, we conducted a survey in a typical university in Malaysia. Basic aim of this research is to identify the \ncharacteristics and factors surrounding the usability of the social media for collaborative learning in higher \neducation. A total of 134 Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) students were used in the survey. We \ndevelopment a conceptual framework in which we propose that interactive with peers and teachers, \nengagement, perceived ease of use and perceived usefulness ;that explain the positive effects and benefits of \nusing social media to enhancing student learning through collaborative learning which, in turn, improves \nstudent academic performance. The results revealed a statistically significant negative relationship between \nperceived usefulness and their satisfaction. Further, engagement and perceived ease of use was found to be \nhighly correlated with students' satisfaction for using social media for collaborative learning among students.
Source: UTM Institutional Repository
Language: English
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2275044174