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Makale Özeti:
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This paper describes and give insight about the use of Facebook to assist learning in
Jakarta and several countries outside Indonesia. There are so many problems that will
arise based on the factual sight such users tend to find difficulties in searching, analyzing
and accessing information that they need, particularly materials in their academic life.
This paper explores how social network site (Facebook) has the potential to creating new
resource in information and technology to assist learning in groups for finding
information needs and also in distance learning system of Universitas Terbuka’s students
who live in Jakarta, Taiwan and Hong Kong. Generally, most of students are working
from Monday to Friday and even on Saturday and Sunday, they really have problems in
having face to face tutorial or even try to get information about their academic life. This
paper was conducted with several communities of Facebook groups, the result showed
that they specifically used Facebook group to assist them to finish their academic life
such as tasks, examination, group discussion or even information.
As the most popular social network in Indonesia, Facebook which accessible, effective
and efficient is one of many communities to assist students in making new friends and
tutors as well as keeping in touch with information on upcoming events, competitions,
seminars, library announcements, new books materials, registration, online tutorial,
webinar, examination and other general information.
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