By Erik Mobrand. Department of Political Science, NUS. Many NUS students are on Facebook. The social networking site offers opportunities for instructors to engage students in new ways, in particular by bringing the learning environment to the student's social space. In this talk, Erik Mobrand shares his experiences using Facebook in Honours modules over the past two years.

1. Learning with Facebook
Erik Mobrand
January 2010

2. Our seminar: Money & Politics

3. Student collaboration in syllabus writing

6. First nice thing: Easy to have discussion

7. Second nice thing: Easy to post and views clips

9. Main nice thing:
Brings learning environment to students’ social space
•Improves accessibility
•Breaks (false) boundaries

11. Final comments

12. How to set up a Group

14. Set your preferences