Assessment of a Learning Environment that Utilizes Facebook to Support Career Learning in High School Students(<Special Issue>Informal Learning in the Information Society)

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  • Facebookを利用したキャリア学習環境の実践と評価(<特集>情報化社会におけるインフォーマルラーニング)
  • 教育実践研究論文 Facebookを利用したキャリア学習環境の実践と評価
  • キョウイク ジッセン ケンキュウ ロンブン Facebook オ リヨウ シタ キャリア ガクシュウ カンキョウ ノ ジッセン ト ヒョウカ

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The Socla Project, which supports career learning of high school students, utilizes social media to connect them to college students and working adults. The participants in the project consisted of 56 high school students (28 in blended learning and 28 in online learning) who pursued their own career-related topics such as the meaning of work and the transition into college, while receiving support from college students and working adults through Facebook. This study evaluates the project on the basis of the results of a questionnaire and semi-structured interviews as well as how Facebook was applied. Although 42.9% fully online learners dropped out of the project (as opposed to the 7.1% blended online learners), the fully online learners who completed the project demonstrated higher levels of participation in and enthusiasm for the learning. In addition the questionnaire reveals that learners' anxieties regarding their careers were alleviated and their career decision-making self-efficacy was enhanced. Further, the interviews suggested that the learners' conversations with their supporters and the questionnaires distributed to the public had contributed toward their overall understanding of the career-related topics.

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