Students re-purpose social networking tools like Facebook as course back-channels, and user characteristics correlate with reported propensity to collaborate¶

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q2 i? Surveyed students report course-related Facebook use, with nuanced correlations between user characteristics and propensity to engage in various forms of course collaboration. → Gerry Stahl & Friedrich W. Hesse & Nancy Law 2011

Evidence¶

Gerry Stahl & Friedrich W. Hesse & Nancy Law 2011¶

Gerry Stahl & Friedrich W. Hesse & Nancy Law. (2011). Tweets from #cscl2011. Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11412-011-9128-6

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The editorial reports, citing Lampe, Wohn, Vitak, Ellison and Wash, a sequence of two survey-based investigations of students' course-related Facebook use. The editorial notes the correlations are between user characteristics and reported propensity to collaborate; actual course behavior was not examined.

"The results indicate nuanced correlations between the characteristics of the Facebook users and their reported propensity to engage in various forms of collaboration in their courses."

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Related Claims¶

• Facebook is used in myriad ways as an educational instrument for learning and teaching in higher education — a broader claim this one bears on
• First-year students used Facebook mainly for social purposes and only secondarily for informal student-to-student academic purposes, rarely for formal teaching. — related