UTAR Faculty of Business and Finance (FBF) academics Dr M. Krishna Moorthy and Loh Chun T'ing have marked another breakthrough in their research history by successfully publishing a research paper, titled “Is Facebook Useful for Learning? A Study in Private Universities in Malaysia” recently in a high-impact Elsevier journal, namely Computers & Education.
The research was part of the students’ final year project and completed collectively with a group of UTAR Accounting undergraduates, namely Khor Mei Wei, Pauline Tan Zi Mei, Chai Yan Yee, Kevin Lim Jia Wern and Yue Mei Xin. The research paper was graded excellent.
From left: Loh and Dr Krishna with the certificates
The study provided a deep insight into the intentions and behaviours of undergraduates in utilising Facebook as a learning tool in private universities.
Dr Krishna, the principal author of the research enthused, “Nowadays, universities are increasingly introducing e-learning into their educational programmes. Facebook, which is primarily used in social networking, can also be used as an educational tool if its perceived usefulness is demonstrated among students.” He added, “Many students mostly spend time socialising with their friends through Facebook. By using Facebook in learning, the role of students can shift from only receiving knowledge to both searching and sharing their knowledge”. Dr Krishna also thanked UTAR for all the support given for this research project.
Loh added, “Students know how to use Facebook to find friends or connect with family, but they are hesitant to use it for learning even though they accept its perceived ease of use and enjoyment. Hence Facebook administrators should come out with more interactive learning tools and also promote its usefulness for learning.”
An international leading journal, Computers & Education Journal aims to increase knowledge and understanding of ways in which digital technology can enhance education, through the publication of high-quality research, which extends theory and practice. The Computer Science interdisciplinary applications journal publishes research papers on the pedagogical uses of digital technology, where the focus is broad enough to be of interest to a wider education community.
Computers & Education is included in Clarivate Analytics master list covering Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index and Current Contents - Social & Behavioral Sciences. The impact factor of this journal is 4.538 with a Web of Science (WOS) Quartile ranking 1. Quartile rankings are derived for each journal in each of its subject categories according to which quartile of the impact factor (IF) distribution the journal occupies for that subject category. Q1 denotes the top 25% of the IF distribution. There are four Professor Editors for this journal, namely, R.S. Heller from George Washington University, Washington DC, USA, M. Nussbaum from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, C-C. Tsai from National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan and J. van Braak from Universiteit Gent, Gent, Belgium.
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