Share Paper: Community-Based Learning (CBL) via Facebook Mobile“It is Time to BYOD (Bring Your Own Device)

1. Ferial Khaddage, Faculty of Science, Engineering and Built Environment School of I.T Deakin University, Australia
2. Adalheidur Reed, North Texas University, United States

Abstract: The penetration of social networking platforms such as Facebook is becoming pervasive in education, along with mobile applications (apps) and mobile devices. Students are using these technologies and apps to organise their learning material. Social media via apps is the most popular activity among college students. In this paper we discuss how teachers could take advantage of Facebook social media platform to promote community-based-learning environment that is flexible, portable and challengeable. We describe how this could be achieved with no restriction to any particular mobile device brand or operating system and how student would simply bring their own device (BYOD).