An analysis of user engagement in student Facebook groups
<p><em>Analysing the engagement of students in university-based Facebook groups can shed light on the nature of their learning experience and highlight leverage points to build on student success. While post-semester surveys and demographic participation data can highlight who was involv...
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doaj-26b06f7a8f144d3b86671f665c12664e2020-11-25T03:48:05ZengQueensland University of TechnologyStudent Success2205-07952015-08-0162939810.5204/ssj.v6i2.294149An analysis of user engagement in student Facebook groupsMurray Lane0Victoria Menzies1Queensland University of TechnologyQueensland University of Technology<p><em>Analysing the engagement of students in university-based Facebook groups can shed light on the nature of their learning experience and highlight leverage points to build on student success. While post-semester surveys and demographic participation data can highlight who was involved and how they subsequently felt about the experience, these techniques do not necessarily reflect real-time engagement. One way to gain insight into in-situ student experiences is by categorising the original posts and comments into predetermined frameworks of learning. This paper offers a systematic method of coding Facebook contributions within various engagement categories: motivation, discourse, cognition and emotive responses.</em></p><p> </p>https://studentsuccessjournal.org/article/view/294student engagementFacebooksocial media |
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Queensland University of Technology |
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Student Success |
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<p><em>Analysing the engagement of students in university-based Facebook groups can shed light on the nature of their learning experience and highlight leverage points to build on student success. While post-semester surveys and demographic participation data can highlight who was involved and how they subsequently felt about the experience, these techniques do not necessarily reflect real-time engagement. One way to gain insight into in-situ student experiences is by categorising the original posts and comments into predetermined frameworks of learning. This paper offers a systematic method of coding Facebook contributions within various engagement categories: motivation, discourse, cognition and emotive responses.</em></p><p> </p> |
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