AN EXPERIENCE FOR THE ASSESSMENT OF FACEBOOK AS A TEACHING TOOL IN THE CONTEXT OF A VOCATIONAL TRAINING COURSE IN COMPUTER SCIENCE

From an educational point of view, a social network can provide different features such as an environment with multiple tools, facilitating the interaction between student-teacher, asynchronous interaction and the exchange of knowledge and its expansion. From the different social network, Facebook is the most successful. For this reason many experiences in education have chosen it and has been evaluated from different point of views such as collaborative environment, privacy risks, its use in different subjects. In this paper, we present a new experience in a vocational training course in computer science. The design of this experience, its goals and the results we obtained are described in this paper. We also make an analysis of the different tools that Facebook offers and mention which of them could be used in teaching experiences.