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Title:
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USING FACEBOOK AS A VIRTUAL CLASSROOM IN A PUBLIC UNIVERSITY IN MEXICO CITY |
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Author(s):
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Miguel Angel Herrera Batista |
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ISBN:
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978-972-8939-88-5 |
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Editors:
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Miguel Baptista Nunes and Maggie McPherson |
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Year:
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2013 |
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Edition:
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Single |
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Keywords:
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Social Networks, e-learning, b-learning, educative Facebook. |
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Type:
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Short Paper |
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First Page:
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379 |
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Last Page:
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383 |
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Language:
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English |
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Paper Abstract:
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Since Information and Communication Technologies have been developed, many changes have taken place in society. Social Networks certainly have changed communication habits, especially among young people. Nowadays, Social Networks are used as a communication system every day. In most countries, university students use this communication and interaction media to share information, images, videos, music, etc. but essentially, they use Social Network to socialize. In Mexico, probably more than 90% of the students between 17 and 25 years old have their own Facebook space. In this way, almost every student in the university knows how to use the social network, especially Facebook, nevertheless, none of them knows how to use virtual classrooms like Moodle, for example. This is a big problem for universities which are interested in using virtual classrooms. That is the case of Metropolitan Autonomous University, in Mexico City that is interested in using Moodle to support academic activities. That is why we decided to change the paradigm: if we cant take students to virtual classroom, we can take classroom to students. In this way we empowered Facebook as a virtual classroom. In this paper we describe our experience in using Facebook, no just as a communication media, but as a real virtual classroom, in a public university in Mexico City. |
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