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Review of Learning Activities in Facebook to Inculcate Meaningful Learning

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Social networking sites (SNSs) are popular among teenagers and adults. Currently, Facebook is the leading SNS in the world compared to other SNSs such as Twitter, LinkedIn, and Myspace. The astounding popularity of Facebook today has evolved Facebook from a social to a learning medium. Many college students have used Facebook for their social life on a daily basis. To blend the social and learning together, many educators embedded teaching and learning activities in Facebook for optimized learning. The aim of this chapter is to identify types of learning activities using SNSs, specifically Facebook, as the learning platform and its findings regarding use of particular learning. There are 10 research projects that have been reviewed; the findings are used to design learning activities for encouraging meaningful learning.

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Acknowledgments

The authors would like to thank the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia and Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia for their support in making this project possible. This work was supported by the Research University Grant (R.J130000.7731.4J132) initiated by the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia and Ministry of Higher Education.

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  1. Department of Educational Science, Mathematics and Creative Multimedia, Faculty of Education, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81310, Skudai, Johor, Malaysia

    Nurul Nadwa Zulkifli & Noor Dayana Abdul Halim

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Zulkifli, N.N., Halim, N.D.A. (2016). Review of Learning Activities in Facebook to Inculcate Meaningful Learning. In: Abidin, S., Legino, R., Noor, H., Vermol, V., Anwar, R., Kamaruzaman, M. (eds) Proceedings of the 2nd International Colloquium of Art and Design Education Research (i-CADER 2015). Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0237-3_38

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