Exploring the effect of incorporating Facebook with project based learning activity on learners’ creativity – A preliminary investigation

Abstract

Social interaction is known to be one of the key elements in Computer- supported collaborative learning (CSCL). Through frequent social interaction, learners are expected to obtain heterogonous perspectives and develop divergent thinking, which could awake creativity, in the learning process. Facebook (FB), a popular social networking service, provides functions that allow people to interact with each other. Recently, educational researchers have looked into the potential of adapting FB in teaching activity. However, relative few attentions have been devoted to the relationship of the extent of engagement in online discussion using FB and the quality of learning outcome in collaborative learning. Therefore, this study incorporated FB with a group project teaching activity to explore the relationship between the extent of students’ engagement in online discussion using FB and the quality of their project outcomes. Results showed that students’ engagement is positively correlated to the completeness of the group project. Based on our preliminary findings, discussion and subsequent research are presented in this paper.