Shazia and I have been using Facebook groups since 2010 (originally with Lorna Love to support what we call VPAL – virtual peer assisted learning. We’ve presented at many conferences and written papers about it, the past being at Social Media for Learning in Higher Education Conference in December last year (paper forthcoming). Recently Dustin Hosseini from Royal Holloway has been talking about our model, and this week he published this lovely blog post reflecting on our model and making what I think are really good points about the ethics of using Facebook. I think it’s well worth a read.
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