Sosyal Ağlardan Facebook’un Eğitime Yönelik Etkililiği

In this study, a material was formed to support the learning process in a class. For this purpose a Facebook group was set up for the “Management Information Systems for Schools” lesson which is a common course at Sakarya University. In this group, course-related information-document shared, announcements were made and mutual correspondence was provided to solve the students’ problems for 8 weeks. After 8 weeks, 23 students selected on the basis of voluntary from 161studentstaking the course and their opinion were collected with a semi-structured interviews on effectiveness of the Facebook group in training. The obtained data was analyzed with the content analysis and themes were developed as a result of this analysis. The encoding method used in the creation process of the themes and codes that may be brought together under the same title created six themes. With six themes it is found that Facebook group is useful in terms of usability, its contribution to group work, follow-up of announcements, to access more and more people and other factors but also there are some limitations of the group in terms of the courses students took