Facebook as a Better and Preferred Learning Support Tool as Compared to Moodle: Students’ Perspectives

Abstract

Students’ perspectives with regard to the relative effectiveness and preference of Moodle and FB for the support of their learning in an undergraduate engineering class were examined. Data collected from a group of 38 undergraduates found that more than 90 percent of the participants (94.74%) thought that FB better supported their learning of this course, and more than 85% of the participating students (86.84%) preferred using FB over Moodle, highlighting their already established use habit, familiarity of the operational procedures and environments, and the system’s affordances. One-group x² tests further found that the participants’ perspectives with regard to the effectiveness and preference of the two platforms were both significant. The results obtained from this study were discussed with reference to technology acceptance model and technology adoption theory.