Face to face or facebook: 21st century university education: A survey

Tom Gedeon, Mohammad Yamin

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    Abstract

    University education has for centuries depended on face to face interactions between academic teachers and their students. In the 21st century, social media tools such as Facebook™ consume an increasing part of the time and attention of our students, who are also more and more stressed. Meanwhile, lecture attendance is down, student part-time work is up, and what has happened to the learning? Is there an ideal amount of Facebook engagement which will maximize outcomes (learning), and engagement (enthusiasm)? We survey the relevant literature to come to some initial conclusions and propose an experimental test of our conclusion.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationService Science and Knowledge Innovation - 15th IFIP WG 8.1 International Conference on Informatics and Semiotics in Organisations, ICISO 2014, Proceedings
    EditorsKecheng Liu, Stephen R. Gulliver, Weizi Li, Changrui Yu
    PublisherSpringer New York LLC
    Pages471-477
    Number of pages7
    ISBN (Electronic)9783642553547
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2014
    Event15th IFIP WG 8.1 International Conference on Informatics and Semiotics in Organisations, ICISO 2014 - Shanghai, China
    Duration: 23 May 201424 May 2014

    Publication series

    NameIFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
    Volume426
    ISSN (Print)1868-4238
    ISSN (Electronic)1868-422X

    Conference

    Conference15th IFIP WG 8.1 International Conference on Informatics and Semiotics in Organisations, ICISO 2014
    Country/TerritoryChina
    CityShanghai
    Period23/05/1424/05/14

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