Facebook as a Tool for Learning Engagement

Posted 12/20/2006 08:34:00 AM by Fred Stutzman who is a Ph.D. student and teaching fellow at UNC?s School of Information and Library Science.

I often receive questions from educators about how to effectively use Facebook as a learning tool. With Facebook use rates hovering around 95 percent, it only makes sense that forward-thinking educators will use this tool as a method of engagement with students. However, with the intersection of privacy concerns and instructor non-familiarity with social networking sites, it takes a little effort to use Facebook properly. I've written the following post with the goal of providing instructors a roadmap for leveraging Facebook effectively as a learning tool. Some of this may be a little general and obvious to experienced FB users, so feel free to skip around.

(In the following articles you will see the development of this article)