Adoption of social network sites for teaching and learning

Abstract

In the era of globalization social network make a big revolution in communications tools in which to convenient erroneous of process that can be applied in teaching and learning. Undeniably, there are numerous of learning applications that somehow make improvement performance of students in academic societies. Even though SNSs (Social Network Sites) gained an egregious reputation for providing high quality of leaning but unfortunately appropriate position for this kind of educational website disregarded sometimes in which provides interesting gap of knowledge for researcher in order to considered and investigate the educational benefit of noncommercial social networks sites such as Edmodo, Ning, Elgg and etc. Specify use in this research use Edmodo. The main goals of this study are to identify the important factors in which has impact over Task-Technology Fit by students of Faculty of Computing in UTM throughout the survey of 317 questionnaires that has been distributed among students in order to propose appropriate adoption of social network teaching and learning model in Faculty of Computing. SmartPLS has in chosen in order to investigate the collected data and also test the hypotheses of this research. The results exhibit that Task Structure and Task Complexity are important factors for Task Characteristics and also Communication, Mobility, Trust, Privacy are important factors for Technology Characteristics that these significant factors has influence over adoption of social network teaching and learning in Faculty of Computing. Finally, to help Faculty of Computing in order to have successful social network teaching and learning some recommendations suggested.