title: Mastering New Information through Facebook and a  Discussion Forum: A Comparative Analysis
creator: Nantha Kumar Subramaniam, 
creator: Maheswari Kandasamy, 
subject: LC5201 Education extension. Adult education. Continuing education
subject: LC5800 Distance education
subject: LG Individual institutions (Asia. Africa)
description: This paper investigated the effect of productive failure (PF) as  an instructional strategy in computer-supported collaborative  learning (CSCL) groups using Facebook and a discussion forum.  PF is an instructional mode design that advocates the delaying  of support for the learners during learning — the more they  struggle, and even fail, while trying to master new information,  the better they are likely to recall and apply that information  later. PF has been used successfully in the classroom. However,  it is not known whether the use of a PF instructional mode with  adult learners in CSCL groups such as Facebook and discussion  forums will produce such a positive effect. A discussion forum  is an important platform used to deliver teaching and learning  via the Web, while the use of social media, especially Facebook,  for teaching and learning has gained prominence lately. This  paper reports an initial study that compares a ‘productive failure’  instructional design in CSCL groups through Facebook and a  discussion forum. Five Facebook and five discussion forum  groups participated in the study. Both groups solved  ill-structured complex problems in small groups without the  provision of any support or scaffolding from their instructors.  The findings suggest that the Facebook groups produced a  variety of scope for discussion and deliberation for solving the  problems and were more successful in sustaining the discussion  compared to the discussion forum groups. Facebook groups also  had a higher critical thinking ratio than the discussion forum  groups. Based on these findings, the implications of a PF  instructional design for adult learners are presented. [ABSTRACT BY AUTHORS]
publisher: Asian Association of Open Universities (AAOU)
date: 2014
type: Article
type: PeerReviewed
format: text
identifier: https://library.oum.edu.my/repository/1070/1/library-document-1070.pdf
identifier:   Nantha Kumar Subramaniam,  and Maheswari Kandasamy,   (2014) Mastering New Information through Facebook and a Discussion Forum: A Comparative Analysis.  AAOU Journal, 9 (1).   ISSN 1858-3431     
relation: https://library.oum.edu.my/repository/1070/