IMPLEMENTING SOCIAL MEDIA AS A LEARNING ENVIRONMENTTO FACILITATE LEARNING ANYTIME/ANYWHERE FORENGINEERING COURSES

Abstract

In an era of modern technology, social media has speeded into almost every aspect of the lives
of almost all ages of people who utilizes the internet. Using social media as teaching/learning
tool parallel with the traditional learning methods in a hybrid technique may provide a
convenient, self-paced learning methodology in an interesting coordinated way. It is an
approach that implement education and communication tools to support educational goals and
enhance learning in a more convenient and cost-effective manner. This study reflects the
advantage of the use of social media in engineering education. The sample of this study
consists of different levels of engineering students attending different courses at the Faculty of
Engineering at Hashemite University. This study reveals that there is a significant difference
between the traditional teaching method and the hybrid one that combines the traditional
educating system with the facebook social media as a supporting learning environment. Overall
engineering education/ learning loop provides the instructor with a solid foundation for further
development and pushing him/ her to follow up learning technology systems in order to
improve his/her professional practice as a lecturer.