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Social Media Platforms have become more and more popular and important in daily life. Then, it may be a factor that affecting students’ learning satisfaction while it may be an enhancing tool or disturbance. So this study is going to find out whether social media enhance students’ learning satisfaction or not by the factors of social media using behavior, purpose of using social media and collaborative learning. The research question was “Would social media enhance students’ learning satisfaction?” This study administered a survey questionnaire to 204 university students. Results found that social media behavior (β = .128, p < .05) and academic purpose (β = .667, p < .001) had direct, significant and positive relationship with collaborative learning (β = .763, p < .001) which had a significant and direct positive effect on students’ learning satisfaction (R 2 = .582). Implications of the factors in predicting satisfaction were discussed.
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Appendix A.Measurement Items Used in the Study
Appendix A.Measurement Items Used in the Study
Construct | Measurement Items |
|---|---|
Social Media Behavior | |
SM1 | Checked out people’s walls without leaving a message |
SM2 | Checked out people’s photos without leaving comments |
SM3 | Facebook Chatted with others |
SM4 | Replied to others’ comments on your profile photo, new photos, fan status, ‘‘what’s on your mind’’ status, group status, notes, and links |
SM5 | Checked out people’s notes, links, and various status without leaving comments |
Academic Purpose | |
AP1 | Coordinate activities for projects. |
AP2 | Schedule meeting/appointments. |
AP3 | Monitor progress of projects. |
AP4 | Distribute/provide information. |
AP5 | Seek task information from people I know. |
AP6 | Give and receive feedback on reports and ideas. |
Collaborative Learning | |
CL1 | Allows all members to benefit from the contributions published by your peers |
CL2 | Encourages that other students help solving questions and difficulties of their peers |
CL3 | Fosters the spreading of your own ideas and points of view and influence point of view of others |
CL4 | Helps you to learn from and consider other students ́ points of view about problems and cases |
CL5 | Allows the coordination of joint actions with peers for other activities outside the course (e.g. prepare assignments for other subjects) |
CL6 | Social media provides helpful tools to facilitate team working |
Learning Satisfaction | |
LS1 | As a whole, you are satisfied with using social media as a project and academic discussion tool. |
LS2 | As a whole, using social media as a project and academic discussion tool is successful. |
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Lam, J.H., Ma, W.WK. (2016). Exploring the Relationship Between Social Media, Collaborative Learning and Learners’ Satisfaction. In: Cheung, S., Kwok, Lf., Shang, J., Wang, A., Kwan, R. (eds) Blended Learning: Aligning Theory with Practices . ICBL 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9757. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41165-1_21
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