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Teaching Strategies in Learning with Facebook to Improve Learner’s Interaction
Journal of Lifelong Learning Society
Abbr :
JLLS
2013, 9(2), pp.155-180
Publisher : Institute of Distance Education
Research Area : Education
2013, 9(2), pp.155-180
Publisher : Institute of Distance Education
Research Area : Education
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This study aims to suggest the teaching strategies for improving the interaction of learners through analysis of learning with Facebook. This study was conducted on 18 students and one professor in the undergraduate course of University that are used as learning space of Facebook. As a result of the study, to increase learner's social interaction, instructor as the motivation-facilitator has to create the environment where you can express your opinion without any restraint and where your interest and motivation keeps growing. Instructor needs to link lectures and learning with Facebook, to let them know the operation and what to be aware of, and to focus more on producing positive feedback realtime as well as personal experience and information sharing to form a sense of followership and closeness among learners. To improve learner's cognitive interaction, instructor as a provider of exact information makes announcement on regular class, uses a variety of materials, and offer information relative to the sessions. Instructor gives tasks and materials that are applicable to the individual. Teaching strategy for better metacognitive interaction is that instructor as a learning-manager has to encourage learners to reflect themselves by keeping records and share them with fellow learners, and lead learners to more learning activities and self-check on their activity by making more inquiries. For improving the learner’s interaction, they are not to simply use the new media but to elevate the effectiveness of learning with strategies which consider the types of learner's interaction and the roles of the instructor.
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