Collaborative learning: The educational perspective of facebook

Olger Gutiérrez-Aguilar, Leslie Salas-Valdivia

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Abstract

The present research evidences the practical experience of incorporation of the Facebook platform as a new educational scenario to analyze interventions and theatrical performances from different contexts at the global level, based on the synchronous and asynchronous interaction of students. In turn, this study demonstrates how the use of this social network in education can favor aspects such as management of knowledge and foster the development of skills training in students, at present this medium is used as a form of communication, leisure and socialization but its educational applications turn out to be very promising, these aspects generate a positive perception by the uses of this social network in the field of education, thus providing a new online learning system that can be replicated in various contexts of Peru and Latin America, helping to improve the academic performance of students, according to the new learning styles of this technological age. The results show that the educational incorporation of this social network has a high level of replication, in various fields and educational subjects, since it greatly favors collaborative work, to achieve the construction of new knowledge, generation of significant learning and the achievement of skills. In conclusion, this work is a contribution, which seeks to strengthen the levels of synchronous and asynchronous communication, based on interaction, to improve digital skills that allow educational socialization.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 14th Latin American Conference on Learning Technologies, LACLO 2019
EditorsMonica Adriana Carreno-Leon, Jesus Andres Sandoval-Bringas, Mario Chacon-Rivas, Francisco Javier Alvarez Rodriguez, Antonio Silva Sprock
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages348-352
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781728142869
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 2019
Externally publishedYes
Event14th Latin American Conference on Learning Technologies, LACLO 2019 - San Jose del Cabo, Baja California Sur, Mexico
Duration: 30 Oct 20191 Nov 2019

Publication series

NameProceedings - 14th Latin American Conference on Learning Technologies, LACLO 2019

Conference

Conference14th Latin American Conference on Learning Technologies, LACLO 2019
Country/TerritoryMexico
CitySan Jose del Cabo, Baja California Sur
Period30/10/191/11/19

Keywords

  • Collaborative learning
  • Facebook
  • Social networks

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