Application of Facebook to higher education institutions for improving communication of students and teaching staff

Autor: Alma Muratović, Ermina Smajlović
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Ekonomski izazovi. 7:56-67
ISSN: 2560-4805
2217-8821
DOI: 10.5937/ekoizazov1814056s
Popis: Social networks have changed the way students communicate, who are constantly online thanks to their mobile apps. Facebook is a social network that students in Bosnia and Herzegovina use intensively. Therefore, the subject of research in this paper is the possibility of using Facebook to improve communication between students and teaching staff. Data were collected during 2016/17. academic year at the Faculty of Economics, University of Tuzla. A total of 389 undergraduate students were interviewed in total. The research involved 11 teachers and associates of the Faculty of Economics. In doing so, by applying the t-test of independent samples, we tried to determine whether there was a difference in attitudes between students and teaching staff regarding how to use the official Facebook page.
Databáze: OpenAIRE