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Past few years have witnessed the growing popularity of Facebook among young people particularly school and college going students. Due to the ever-growing user community of Facebook educational researchers and practitioners believe that Facebook could be used for delivering educational content and act as a learning tool. In this work in progress submission, we aim at exploring if and how Facebook could be used as an open education platform and explore its educational uses. Facebook for educational users has received some attentions from educational researchers but majority of this research is focused on University and college going students. In contrast to previous research, we have organized a questionnaire survey with 424 high school students in India. This questionnaire survey investigates different aspects addressed the bigger issue i.e. how Facebook can be used for educational purposes. This study addresses if and how Facebook could be used as a medium for open education, different affordances (such as technical, social, communication) offered by Facebook for educational purposes, various benefits and limitations of Facebook in context to educational spaces and finally various policy level implications of Facebook use on education institutions and its stakeholders.
Statistics 1, 2013, http://newsroom.fb.com/Key-Facts
Statistics 2, 2013, http://news.yahoo.com/number-active-users-facebook-over-230449748.html
Statistics 3, 2013, http://www.socialbakers.com/facebook-statistics/ (India statistics)
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Buragga, K., Dhir, A., Boreqqah, A.A. (2013). Facebook an Open Education Platform: Exploring Its Educational Uses. In: Stephanidis, C. (eds) HCI International 2013 - Posters’ Extended Abstracts. HCI 2013. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 374. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39476-8_4
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