Social Networking Impact on Learning

摘要：

Relying on Tintos integration theory and Astins involvement theory, this paper develops a conceptual model to explain how college students online social networking (i. e. using Facebook) influences their social and academic social integration, and learning outcomes. Several rounds of focus group discussions were conducted to explore college students current online social networking experience and their attitude toward using Facebook for education. Our findings indicate that students online social networking is straightforwardly influential to their social learning, while its influence on the academic learning might be realized through a gradual and longitudinal process.

关键词： Online social network Social integration Academic integration Learning outcomes Facebook

作者: Stella Wen Tian Angela Yan Yu Douglas Vogel Ron Chi-Wai Kwok

作者单位: Knowledge and Innovation Management Team, USTC-CityU Joint Advanced Research Center (Suzhou), China Department of Information Systems, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: 第八届武汉电子商务国际会议(The Eighth Wuhan International Conference on E-Business)

会议地点: 武汉

会议语种:英文

页码: 1107-1114

在线出版日期: 2009-05-30（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）