Supervision on Social Media: Use and Perception of Facebook as a Research Education Tool in Disadvantaged Areas

This exploratory study investigates how a typically disadvantaged user group of older, female learners from rural, low-tech settings used and perceived a Facebook group as a research supervision and distance learning tool over time. The within-stage mixed-model research was carried out in a module o...

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Autores principales:	Christoph Pimmer, Jennifer Chipps, Petra Brysiewicz, Fiona Walters, Sebastian Linxen, Urs Gröhbiel Gröhbiel
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Publicado:	Athabasca University Press 2016
Materias:	social media social network site Facebook education supervision research supervision Special aspects of education LC8-6691
Acceso en línea:	https://doaj.org/article/47a76d496f404ff8a1612d47fb853eb2
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:47a76d496f404ff8a1612d47fb853eb22021-12-02T16:59:54ZSupervision on Social Media: Use and Perception of Facebook as a Research Education Tool in Disadvantaged Areas10.19173/irrodl.v17i5.25471492-3831https://doaj.org/article/47a76d496f404ff8a1612d47fb853eb22016-09-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/2547https://doaj.org/toc/1492-3831This exploratory study investigates how a typically disadvantaged user group of older, female learners from rural, low-tech settings used and perceived a Facebook group as a research supervision and distance learning tool over time. The within-stage mixed-model research was carried out in a module of a part-time, advanced midwifery education course in rural South Africa. To address the research questions, three quantitative and qualitative surveys were repeated, pre, post, and three months post evaluation. The findings indicate that using the social media space lowered learners' threshold to accessing educational resources. The increased ease of communication was afforded in particular by using mobile phones to access the space. The analysis also suggests that the social networking site became a more integral part of students' learning environments. The learners' use of the site to discuss further course and work-related issues increased during the intervention and also remained significantly higher in the three-month, post evaluation survey, indicating the routinisation and habitualisation of this learning space. The practical implications and constraints of using social networking spaces to enhance disadvantaged groups of learners’ access to educational resources are discussed. Christoph PimmerJennifer ChippsPetra BrysiewiczFiona WaltersSebastian LinxenUrs Gröhbiel GröhbielAthabasca University Pressarticlesocial mediasocial network siteFacebookeducationsupervisionresearch supervisionSpecial aspects of educationLC8-6691ENInternational Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, Vol 17, Iss 5 (2016)
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spellingShingle	social media social network site Facebook education supervision research supervision Special aspects of education LC8-6691 Christoph Pimmer Jennifer Chipps Petra Brysiewicz Fiona Walters Sebastian Linxen Urs Gröhbiel Gröhbiel Supervision on Social Media: Use and Perception of Facebook as a Research Education Tool in Disadvantaged Areas
description	This exploratory study investigates how a typically disadvantaged user group of older, female learners from rural, low-tech settings used and perceived a Facebook group as a research supervision and distance learning tool over time. The within-stage mixed-model research was carried out in a module of a part-time, advanced midwifery education course in rural South Africa. To address the research questions, three quantitative and qualitative surveys were repeated, pre, post, and three months post evaluation. The findings indicate that using the social media space lowered learners' threshold to accessing educational resources. The increased ease of communication was afforded in particular by using mobile phones to access the space. The analysis also suggests that the social networking site became a more integral part of students' learning environments. The learners' use of the site to discuss further course and work-related issues increased during the intervention and also remained significantly higher in the three-month, post evaluation survey, indicating the routinisation and habitualisation of this learning space. The practical implications and constraints of using social networking spaces to enhance disadvantaged groups of learners’ access to educational resources are discussed.
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author	Christoph Pimmer Jennifer Chipps Petra Brysiewicz Fiona Walters Sebastian Linxen Urs Gröhbiel Gröhbiel
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title	Supervision on Social Media: Use and Perception of Facebook as a Research Education Tool in Disadvantaged Areas
title_short	Supervision on Social Media: Use and Perception of Facebook as a Research Education Tool in Disadvantaged Areas
title_full	Supervision on Social Media: Use and Perception of Facebook as a Research Education Tool in Disadvantaged Areas
title_fullStr	Supervision on Social Media: Use and Perception of Facebook as a Research Education Tool in Disadvantaged Areas
title_full_unstemmed	Supervision on Social Media: Use and Perception of Facebook as a Research Education Tool in Disadvantaged Areas
title_sort	supervision on social media: use and perception of facebook as a research education tool in disadvantaged areas
publisher	Athabasca University Press
publishDate	2016
url	https://doaj.org/article/47a76d496f404ff8a1612d47fb853eb2
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Supervision on Social Media: Use and Perception of Facebook as a Research Education Tool in Disadvantaged Areas

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