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USING SOCIAL NETWORK AS AN EDUCATION ENHANCEMENT TOOLS A CASE STUDY OF USING WHATSAPP IN PRINCESS NOURAH UNIVERSITY

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  • Journal of Educational and Instructional Studies in the World

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  • 2016

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Nowadays, Social network has explosive growth around the world and especially among adults. This encourages educators to use these technologies as learning tools, and encourage student to participate in online classroom. Students use it to communicate with other colleagues, and share news, courses resources, and ideas. This paper was conducted in fall of 2015 at the college of computer and information system of Princess Nourah Bint Abdullrahman University. The study uses the WhatsApp as a tool to enhance the review courses for 100 students distributed in four sections. The results show that student encouraged to review the course, save studying time, and get higher score than others.
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