Blended Student’s Views About Using Social Networks in Education Period: A case study in Sakarya University


İşman A., Hamutoğlu N. B.

International journal of New Trends in Arts, Sports Science Education, cilt.2, sa.3, ss.61-67, 2013 (Hakemli Dergi)

Özet

The purpose of this study is the level of blended learning habits of students using social networks. In the study student’s views are collected through the using social networks in the education process. These views are analyzed gender, socio-economic level, usage internet frequent weekly, place that family lives variables. In the study one of the social network Facebook has used by the blended learning students, which studying computer and instructional technology education department and registered 3rd level Distance Education course and registered 2nd level the Instructional Technology and Material Design  courses. This study includes 76 students and 52 of them going on 2nd level, 24 of them going on 3rd level in the same department. The students have discussed the questions that have been on Facebook over a period. 5 Likert-type questionnaires developed for the purpose of the research group used to collect feedback. The data which has collected analyzed by the SPSS program with the t-test and ANOVA.