To Like or Not to Like: Facebook® in the Higher Education Classroom

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Pamela Ezell

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Facebook is ubiquitous on university campuses, and yet, at the time of this writing, there was a distinct absence of Facebook in the higher education classroom – except when used by distracted students during a lecture. Facebook has pedagogical potential. Why are some faculty resistant to using Facebook for purposes of teaching and learning? What empirical data exist to support the use of Facebook? What are the disadvantages to teaching and learning of using Facebook? When faculty have used Facebook for pedagogical purposes, how was it used? These questions will be addressed in this article.

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Ezell, P. (2016). To Like or Not to Like: Facebook® in the Higher Education Classroom. Journal of Teaching and Learning With Technology, 5(1), 33–45. https://doi.org/10.14434/jotlt.v5n1.14129
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Pamela Ezell, Chapman University

Pamela Ezell is a doctoral student in the College of Educational Studies, Leadership Studies, at Chapman University, Orange, CA USA, where she also the director of broadcast and digitial media.

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