TY - GEN
T1 - Exploring the potential benefits of facebook on personal, social, academic and career development for higher education students
AU - Wong, Kenneth
AU - Kwan, Reggie
AU - Leung, Kat
AU - Wang, Fu Lee
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - At present, Facebook is a free and one of the most popular social networking sites. Its primary purpose is to provide an online communication platform for users to make new friends and interact with them. It may be an ideal platform for online learning community with great potential to facilitate student guidance and counseling work. In this paper, we present findings from a small scale study exploring the potential benefits of Facebook on personal, social, academic and career development. Data were collected from interviews and messages written by the students on Facebook. The results indicated that both students and teachers would benefit from this new approach. The potential benefits of Facebook for students are not only limited to academic development but also in personal/social development and career development.
AB - At present, Facebook is a free and one of the most popular social networking sites. Its primary purpose is to provide an online communication platform for users to make new friends and interact with them. It may be an ideal platform for online learning community with great potential to facilitate student guidance and counseling work. In this paper, we present findings from a small scale study exploring the potential benefits of Facebook on personal, social, academic and career development. Data were collected from interviews and messages written by the students on Facebook. The results indicated that both students and teachers would benefit from this new approach. The potential benefits of Facebook for students are not only limited to academic development but also in personal/social development and career development.
KW - Facebook
KW - academic and career development
KW - comprehensive guidance service programme
KW - social networking
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84865025111&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-32018-7_24
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-32018-7_24
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84865025111
SN - 9783642320170
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 253
EP - 264
BT - Hybrid Learning - 5th International Conference, ICHL 2012, Proceedings
T2 - 5th International Conference on Hybrid Learning, ICHL 2012
Y2 - 13 August 2012 through 15 August 2012
ER -