Abstract
This paper introduces a conceptual platform for bringing students and teachers together in a social media consortium. The results extracted from the questionnaire used in this paper exhibits that the majority of the students support and are eager to see this idea live and willing to play an active role and show full commitment. This consortium encompasses students and teachers from both school and university. This platform prepares the students, fosters and enables them to a smooth transition from school to university, as well as improving the students’ communication skills and academic performance by using mentoring, tutoring and coaching techniques. As a case study of social media, Facebook was used as a communication and interactive tool amongst group members. The theme behind this platform is to construct academic group from final year school students with first year university students to exchange experience and transfer knowledge. This group has school teachers as well as university teachers. Each group has a mentor, coach and tutor. Each of them will play a specific role throughout the group, which will be highlighted in this paper. The outcomes were useful and interesting for students, their parents and teachers involved. It was a great experiment and recommended to widen it to involve more students and teachers.
Highlights
Student-centered learning strategies, especially in the higher education sector, have had more emphasis over the last twenty years
This paper explores the acceptance and readiness of both students and teachers to use social media as a platform for interactive learning means and an effective communication tool to overcome and bridge the gap between school and university life
The questionnaire shows the availability of the technology and Internet access among the surveyed students and teachers, which makes life easy to use social media, and as a case study Facebook, as a communication tool
Summary
Student-centered learning strategies, especially in the higher education sector, have had more emphasis over the last twenty years. This emphasis is accompanied by more considerations for utilizing technology and exploiting its ubiquity and the role it could play to consolidate and support effective learning (Roblyer et al, 2010). This paper explores the acceptance and readiness of both students and teachers to use social media as a platform for interactive learning means and an effective communication tool to overcome and bridge the gap between school and university life. The questionnaire shows the availability of the technology and Internet access among the surveyed students and teachers, which makes life easy to use social media, and as a case study Facebook, as a communication tool. A group in face book has been created and involved of students from both the university and school with their teachers started utilizing social media and evaluating the efficiency and effectiveness of the process by evaluating the feedback from participants
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