The Attractiveness of Facebook in Secondary Students in the Kingdom of Tonga and its Potential

Author

Sopu, Hans Tobias ; Chisaki, Yoshifumi ; Usagawa, Tsuyoshi

Author_Institution

Grad. Sch. of Sci. & Technol., Kumamoto Univ., Kumamoto, Japan

fYear

2014

fDate

Aug. 31 2014-Sept. 4 2014

Firstpage

510

Lastpage

516

Abstract

Facebook® is a popular social network. There are approximately 1 billion registered users as of 2013. On the other hand, developing countries are starting to take advan- tage of the free platform and capabilities provided through facebook. The Island Kingdom of Tonga located in the South Pacific is also taking advantage of this social network. The secondary students of the Kingdom of Tonga are also curiously and interestingly socializing through facebook. In this paper, we observed through an online survey how much facebook is attracted in high school students and teachers. We also explained a facebook module for Moodle platform version 2.4.3 that was developed to enhance online collaboration in Moodle for students in the Kingdom of Tonga as part of the future works which is also mentioned.

Keywords

Internet; distance learning; educational courses; learning management systems; public domain software; social networking (online); Facebook; Kingdom of Tonga; LMS; Moodle platform version 2.4.3; learning management system; online collaboration; secondary students; Collaboration; Educational institutions; Electronic learning; Facebook; Internet; Mobile communication; Mobile handsets; Kingdom of Tonga; facebook; facebook forum in moodle; moodle;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advanced Applied Informatics (IIAIAAI), 2014 IIAI 3rd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kitakyushu

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-4174-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IIAI-AAI.2014.107

Filename

6913351