探討Facebook使用在程式設計課程上的影響

The Effects of Using Facebook on Programming Learning

陳柏翰(Bo-Han Chen)

指導教授 ： 藍友烽

國立虎尾科技大學/管理學院/資訊管理研究所/碩士(2014年)

摘要

在過去程式設計學習活動中大多數的學生都會遇到與邏輯思考、基本概念的理解和除錯的問題。學生需要不斷練習來培養程式能力，但是他們沒有充分的動機則無法維持很長的時間。因此，如何結合有用的學習策略和學習工具來提升學生程式學習表現成為一個重要議題。臉書是一種社會網路服務，而且是在大學生中最廣泛和流行的社群平台。以前的研究已經確定了在教育使用社群平台的好處，包括可以提高學生的合作，討論和分享資訊。雖然臉書在大學生中是最流行和廣泛使用的，但較少的研究在探討如何在學習活動使用臉書。本研究的目的是探討臉書使用在程式設計課程上的影響。實驗對象為120位大一新生。並且分為對照組（60名學生）和實驗組（60名學生），實驗前後兩組的學生進行了前後測。並且使用ANCOVA分析來檢驗學習兩組成績的差異。實驗結束後，實驗組學生要完成一份關於學習信心、動機、態度，和臉書對於程式設計的感知有用性的問卷。根據結果顯示，學生的學習成效有顯著的差異。此外，研究結果還發現，使用臉書可以提高學生的學習態度。對於臉書使用在程式設計課程上的影響，大多數學生都表示，有以下優點：（1）使用FB可以讓他們主動學習，（2）臉書可以提供更多和同學或老師互動的機會，（3）臉書呈現的內容較多樣化且豐富，以及（4）在學習活動中使用FB的頻率會比使用傳統數位平台更高，尤其是在課程討論活動方面。

關鍵字

臉書 ； 數位學習 ； 學習態度 ； 學習成效

並列摘要

Previous research reported that in programming learning activity most students encounter several problems related to logical thinking, the understanding of basic concepts, and debugging. Generally, to develop programming ability requires students to continually practice exercises, which cannot sustain a long time unless they are adequately motivated. Hence, how to combine useful learning strategy and tools to prompt students programming learning performance becomes an important issue. Facebook (FB) is currently considered as the most widely used and popular platform for social networking service (SNS) among university students. Many researchers have identified several benefits of educational usage of FB such as improvement of students’ communication, collaboration, and resource sharing. Though FB is popular and widely used by university students, few studies investigate the effect of using FB on learning performance and how to use FB as a learning strategy in the learning activity. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of using FB on programming learning activity. A total of 120 freshman students were invited to join in this study. Two classes were divided into a control group (sixty students) and an experimental group (sixty students). Before and after the experiment, all the participants of the two groups completed a pre-test and post-test. A one-way ANCOVA analysis was used to examine the differences of learning achievement between the two groups. After the experiment, the students of the experimental group were asked to complete a questionnaire regarding learning confidence, motivation, attitude, and the perceived usefulness of FB in programming learning activity. According to the research results, the study found that there was a significant difference in the students’ learning achievement between two groups. Additionally, the results also show that using FB can enhance students’ learning attitude. Regarding the effects of using FB in programming learning activity, most of the students expressed that there exists the following benefits: (1) using FB can enable them to learn actively, (2) FB can provide learners with more opportunities to interact with peers and instructor, (3) the content presentation of FB is diversify and richness, and (4) the frequency of using FB in learning activity is higher than that of using traditional e-learning platform, particularly course discussion activity.

並列關鍵字

Facebook ； e-learning ； Learning attitude ； Learning achievement

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