Using facebook as an alternative learning tool in Malaysian Higher Learning Institutions: a structural equation modeling approach

Networking is important among students to achieve better understanding. Social networking plays an important role in the education. Realizing its huge potential, various organizations,including institutions of higher learning have moved to the area of social networks to interact with their students...

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Main Authors: Haque, A. K. M. Ahasanul, Mohd. Israil, Khaliq Ahmad, Abdullah, Sarwar
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Language:English
Published: World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology 2015
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spelling iium-439572016-12-14T07:20:17Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/43957/ Using facebook as an alternative learning tool in Malaysian Higher Learning Institutions: a structural equation modeling approach Haque, A. K. M. Ahasanul Mohd. Israil, Khaliq Ahmad Abdullah, Sarwar H62 Study and teaching. Research Networking is important among students to achieve better understanding. Social networking plays an important role in the education. Realizing its huge potential, various organizations,including institutions of higher learning have moved to the area of social networks to interact with their students especially through Facebook. Therefore, measuring the effectiveness of Facebook as a learning tool has become an area of interest to academics and researchers. Therefore, this study tried to integrate and propose new theoretical and empirical evidences by linking the western idea of adopting Facebook as an alternative learning platform from a Malaysian perspective. This study, thus, aimed to fill a gap by being among the pioneering research that tries to study the effectiveness of adopting Facebook as a learning platform across other cultural settings, namely Malaysia. Structural equation modeling was employed for data analysis and hypothesis testing. This study finding has provided some insights that would likely affect students’ awareness towards using Facebook as an alternative learning platform in the Malaysian higher learning institutions. At the end,future direction is proposed. World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology 2015 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/43957/1/Paper_with_Ahsanul_et.al..pdf Haque, A. K. M. Ahasanul and Mohd. Israil, Khaliq Ahmad and Abdullah, Sarwar (2015) Using facebook as an alternative learning tool in Malaysian Higher Learning Institutions: a structural equation modeling approach. International Scholarly and Scientific Research & Innovation, 9 (5). pp. 1568-1575. http://www.waset.org/Publications/?path=Publications
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topic H62 Study and teaching. Research
spellingShingle H62 Study and teaching. Research
Haque, A. K. M. Ahasanul
Mohd. Israil, Khaliq Ahmad
Abdullah, Sarwar
Using facebook as an alternative learning tool in Malaysian Higher Learning Institutions: a structural equation modeling approach
description Networking is important among students to achieve better understanding. Social networking plays an important role in the education. Realizing its huge potential, various organizations,including institutions of higher learning have moved to the area of social networks to interact with their students especially through Facebook. Therefore, measuring the effectiveness of Facebook as a learning tool has become an area of interest to academics and researchers. Therefore, this study tried to integrate and propose new theoretical and empirical evidences by linking the western idea of adopting Facebook as an alternative learning platform from a Malaysian perspective. This study, thus, aimed to fill a gap by being among the pioneering research that tries to study the effectiveness of adopting Facebook as a learning platform across other cultural settings, namely Malaysia. Structural equation modeling was employed for data analysis and hypothesis testing. This study finding has provided some insights that would likely affect students’ awareness towards using Facebook as an alternative learning platform in the Malaysian higher learning institutions. At the end,future direction is proposed.
format Article
author Haque, A. K. M. Ahasanul
Mohd. Israil, Khaliq Ahmad
Abdullah, Sarwar
author_facet Haque, A. K. M. Ahasanul
Mohd. Israil, Khaliq Ahmad
Abdullah, Sarwar
author_sort Haque, A. K. M. Ahasanul
title Using facebook as an alternative learning tool in Malaysian Higher Learning Institutions: a structural equation modeling approach
title_short Using facebook as an alternative learning tool in Malaysian Higher Learning Institutions: a structural equation modeling approach
title_full Using facebook as an alternative learning tool in Malaysian Higher Learning Institutions: a structural equation modeling approach
title_fullStr Using facebook as an alternative learning tool in Malaysian Higher Learning Institutions: a structural equation modeling approach
title_full_unstemmed Using facebook as an alternative learning tool in Malaysian Higher Learning Institutions: a structural equation modeling approach
title_sort using facebook as an alternative learning tool in malaysian higher learning institutions: a structural equation modeling approach
publisher World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology
publishDate 2015
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/43957/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/43957/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/43957/1/Paper_with_Ahsanul_et.al..pdf
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