Abstract
The researchers conducted a study in a ‘Computer Programming’ course of three engineering departments (Civil, Industrial and Mechatronics) in a Turkish private university (n=240). A closed Facebook group was set up for serving as an LMS for the course. At the end of the semester, the students were given a survey of three sections; demographic questions, three opinion based questions on Facebook group use and thirty two Facebook in education perception related 5-Likert scale. The mean scores showed that majority of the students liked using a closed Facebook group. The two most important reasons were accessing the shared lecture notes ubiquitously and keeping themselves updated on anything related to the course. Additionally, the students agreed the idea of keeping Facebook group as secret and the importance of establishing group rules. The students also reported that the Facebook group was not a waste of time or uninteresting for them. Lastly, comparison tests showed that there were certain items yielding significant differences based on gender, school year and department variables.
Highlights
Social media platforms have evolved in many different ways over the years and their influences in our daily lives have expanded dramatically
The mean scores showed that the majority of the students liked using a closed Facebook group
That average shows that the students liked using a Facebook group in their C programming course
Summary
Social media platforms have evolved in many different ways over the years and their influences in our daily lives have expanded dramatically. It becomes more visible that we cannot keep people away from these social media platforms, especially the youth. Different scholars and stakeholders have initiated different attempts to integrate these platforms into different practices of daily lives. Education has been one of these practices as a result of wide expansion of youth’s mobile device accessibility and their unstoppable registrations to these social media platforms. As one of the most popular social media platforms, Facebook has served the purpose of being entertainment and social networking tools. The utilization of Facebook is limited to being a social media platform for gratification. It is undeniably important to experiment and measure the outcomes of Facebook usage through class assessment or examination
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