A Case Study Exploring Junior High School Students’ Interaction Behavior in a Learning Community on Facebook: Day and Time

Abstract

Because Facebook has become another site where students spend much of their time, more and more teachers and researchers conduct teaching activities on Facebook. As a result, teachers must understand the students’ interaction behaviors in Facebook groups before creating a learning community on Facebook. This research aimed to explore teachers’ posts, students’ posts and student’s responses (read, like, and reply) to posts. The results showed that students preferred to reply to teachers’ posts instead of students’ posts. Students participated in online interactions mostly at night, before weekends and between 8:00 pm and midnight on school nights. Thus, it is recommended that teachers be aware of students’ online interaction behaviors so they can arrange appropriate schedules and actively post articles to allow student discussion.