Student use of Facebook groups as a support for academic learning
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ABSTRACT This main objective of this study was to discover how Facebook groups use impact the academic learning undergraduate students. This paper applied a mixed research method in which quantitative as core and qualitative is supplemental. Data from sample 590 college students are used analyze use, ease, usefulness, performance related positive negative correlation among It shows significant relationship between groups’ with ease usefulness groups, performance. Qualitative results suggest that using facilitates students’ it their satisfactory
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Applied Science and Engineering
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['2321-0745', '2322-0465']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.6703/ijase.202106_18(4).001