Changing the Conversation: Facebook as a Venue for Online Class Discussion in Higher Education

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Changing the Conversation: Facebook as a Venue for Online Class Discussion in Higher Education

In this paper, the author reports on a study of the online activity of students in a final-year unit in the Internet Communications course at Curtin University. Student activity was recorded in the discussion forums of the Blackboard learning management system for three instances of the same unit, i...

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Main Author:	Kent, Mike
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	MERLOT II 2013
Subjects:	online discussion forums Blackboard student engagement online learning online teaching Facebook online student activity
Online Access:	http://jolt.merlot.org/vol9no4/kent_1213.pdf http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/33114

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