Facebook for e-moderation - a Latin-American experience

Social Network Sites such as Facebook are being now used by many academics for learning purposes, taking into account studies that report that a majority of young students spend more time insocially related online activities when compared to time in classroom. In online education there are mature mo...

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Main Authors: Hernandez, R., Guetl, Christian, Amado-Salvatierra, H.
Other Authors: Stefanie Lindstaedt
Format: Conference Paper
Published: ACM Inc 2011
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Online Access:http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2024288.2024332
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/35081
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author Hernandez, R.
Guetl, Christian
Amado-Salvatierra, H.
author2 Stefanie Lindstaedt
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Hernandez, R.
Guetl, Christian
Amado-Salvatierra, H.
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description Social Network Sites such as Facebook are being now used by many academics for learning purposes, taking into account studies that report that a majority of young students spend more time insocially related online activities when compared to time in classroom. In online education there are mature models for creating and conducting learning experiences, one of them is the 5 stage e-Moderation model. In this study we created an experience of doing e-Moderation of a learning process in Facebook. At the same time a comparison of interactions and learning between Facebook and traditional online discussion forums in a learning management system is performed. The participants of the course setting are university professors from diverse countries in Latin- America. Outlined are findings in organization of learning activities, new social motivation artifacts and intrinsic social behaviors, information exchange difficulties, enhanced and increased interaction, positive knowledge construction, critical thinking and reflection development, therefore leading the study results into creating effective e-Moderation learning activities in Social Network Sites.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-350812023-01-27T05:52:10Z Facebook for e-moderation - a Latin-American experience Hernandez, R. Guetl, Christian Amado-Salvatierra, H. Stefanie Lindstaedt Michael Granitzer technology-enhanced learning Social Network Sites Scaffolding Constructivism CSCL e-Learning Facebook on education e-Moderation Social Network Sites such as Facebook are being now used by many academics for learning purposes, taking into account studies that report that a majority of young students spend more time insocially related online activities when compared to time in classroom. In online education there are mature models for creating and conducting learning experiences, one of them is the 5 stage e-Moderation model. In this study we created an experience of doing e-Moderation of a learning process in Facebook. At the same time a comparison of interactions and learning between Facebook and traditional online discussion forums in a learning management system is performed. The participants of the course setting are university professors from diverse countries in Latin- America. Outlined are findings in organization of learning activities, new social motivation artifacts and intrinsic social behaviors, information exchange difficulties, enhanced and increased interaction, positive knowledge construction, critical thinking and reflection development, therefore leading the study results into creating effective e-Moderation learning activities in Social Network Sites. 2011 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/35081 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2024288.2024332 ACM Inc fulltext
spellingShingle technology-enhanced learning
Social Network Sites
Scaffolding
Constructivism
CSCL
e-Learning
Facebook on education
e-Moderation
Hernandez, R.
Guetl, Christian
Amado-Salvatierra, H.
Facebook for e-moderation - a Latin-American experience
title Facebook for e-moderation - a Latin-American experience
title_full Facebook for e-moderation - a Latin-American experience
title_fullStr Facebook for e-moderation - a Latin-American experience
title_full_unstemmed Facebook for e-moderation - a Latin-American experience
title_short Facebook for e-moderation - a Latin-American experience
title_sort facebook for e-moderation - a latin-american experience
topic technology-enhanced learning
Social Network Sites
Scaffolding
Constructivism
CSCL
e-Learning
Facebook on education
e-Moderation
url http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2024288.2024332
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/35081