Presenters: Dr Ferial Khaddage & Adalheidur Reed PhD Candidate School of Information Technology Deakin University Australia. University of North Texas, College of Information, Learning Technologies USA SITE 2013 New Orleans Louisiana USA 25-29 March

1. COMMUNITY-BASED LEARNING (CBL) VIA
FACEBOOK MOBILE IT IS TIME TO BYOD
(BRING YOUR OWN DEVICE)”
Presenters:
Dr Ferial Khaddage & Adalheidur Reed PhD Candidate
School of Information Technology Deakin University
Australia.
University of North Texas, College of Information,
Learning Technologies USA
SITE 2013 New Orleans Louisiana USA 25-29 March

2. BRING YOUR OWN DEVICE (BYOD)
Social networking platforms such as Facebook is
becoming pervasive in education
BYOD models can provide more flexible
learning environment than any current restricted
iPad systems.

3. BRING YOUR OWN DEVICE (BYOD)
Facebook app via a mobile device can be integrated
Virtual and mobile Community Based Learning (CBL) that can
be flexible efficient, instant and on demand.

5. The Devices itself is only the platform featured phones
or tablets for different platforms i.e (Android iOS etc.)

6. OPERATING SYSTEMS

7. APPLICATIONS (APPS):
Are created via the application frameworks, i.e. camera,
game, Facebook app etc..etc..

8. SURVEY AND RESULTS
A questionnaire conducted on second year university
students studying e-business courses and Computer
Science courses at the Information Technology
Department in (2012)
The questionnaire covered questions mobile phone
ownership, accessibility, use FB mobile app & the
possibility to use FB app to access learning content/form
study groups

9. RESULTS!
• All students (N=70) who completed the questionnaire
own a mobile phone,
Blackberry (50),
iPhone (11),
Samsung (5)
Nokia (4).

10. RESULTS!
100% of students have free access to WiFi when on campus (N=70).
100% of students have Facebook app installed on their mobile phone (N=70).
100% of students are keen to bring their own mobile phone to class and use it (N=70)
80% of students have WiFi at home when away from campus (N=56)
10% of students only use their mobile phone for educational purposes (N= 7)
85% of students think that using Facebook mobile app to form study groups is a good
idea (N= 59)
50% of students think it would be useful to be able to access learning materials from
their mobile(N=35)

11. CONCLUSION!
The results clearly show that students are happy to bring
their own mobile phone to the classroom and use
Facebook app for educational purpose. But some would
argue that this will create a digital divide amongst
students (as some students may have the latest device
while others may have not).
But as teachers we have to create an appropriate
environment for our students in order for them to learn.

12. Thank you 
Ferial Khaddage & Heida Reed
fayekhaddage@gmail.com , adalheidurreed@my.unt.edu