Towards Identification of Students’ Holistic Learning Process through Facebook in Higher Education

This paper describes an approach for analysing the learning process that takes place in Facebook. The approach is based on a five-dimensional model that includes a participative, an interactive, a social, a cognitive and a value dimension. Each dimension comprises a set of indicators to be used to analyse students‟ interaction within Facebook. The proposed set of indicators, drawn from the literature and the researcher‟s field experience from a semester-long tertiary course with online participation, are discussed for each dimension. The paper also proposes value dimension integration in order to identify students‟ holistic learning process through Facebook in higher education.