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Educ Strategy Med Sci 2018, 11(3): 89-97 Back to browse issues page
The Ways of Using Its College Teachers from Virtual Social Networks in Education
Gholamhossein Rahimidoost 1, Nahid Sayahi2 , Maryam Falahi3
1- Faculty Member, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran , rahimidoost@gmail.com
2- Ahvaz Education Organization, Ahvaz, Iran
3- Department of Instructional Technology, AllamehTabataba'i University, Tehran, Iran
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Introduction: Present research aimed to investigate the use of virtual social networks during instruction by trainers of Ahvaz school district1.
Methods: In terms of aims the research method was applied and in terms of data gathering was descriptive- survey. The statistical population of this study included all its college teachers in the second year of their secondary education in Ahvaz district of 200 people. Among them 127 samples were selected by cluster sampling method. 50 items Researcher made questionnaire was used for gartering data. The questionnaire was validated by 5 filed experts. Reliability of the questionnaire was 94.5 date was analyzed by infernal statistics such as one sample T test, U Mann–Whitney, Kruskal-wallis, and spearman brown correlation.
Results: results showed that usage of virtual social networks was ignorantly more for creating corporative leaning environment, for preparing learners for new lesson, for practice and Deeping learning and for increasing motivation.
Conclusions: Due to the possibilities offered by the virtual social networking, their college teachers can use these networks to improve the quality of their teaching and deepen their learning, increase the motivation of academic achievement, class participation, and student group activities.
Keywords: social network, virtual environment, trainers, virtual social networks
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Article Type: Original Research | Subject: Theories of Learning and Teaching in Medical Sciences
Received: 2017/12/20 | Accepted: 2018/02/13 | Published: 2018/08/3



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