E-learning and social media: Using Facebook to create an online community among applied social practice postgraduate students during a COVID-19 lockdown

Rangiwai, Byron

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2021
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Rangiwai, B. (2021). E-learning and social media: Using Facebook to create an online community among applied social practice postgraduate students during a COVID-19 lockdown. Te Kaharoa: The eJournal on Indigenous Pacific Issues, 17(1), 1-22. doi:10.24135/tekaharoa.v17i1.385
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This paper will discuss the use of Facebook as a means for creating an online community to support e-learning among applied social practice postgraduate students in the School of Healthcare and Social Practice at Unitec Institute of Technology during a lockdown in Auckland which began on 17 August 2021 and ended on 3 December 2021 (with the implementation of the COVID-19 Protection Framework) https://covid19.govt.nz/traffic-lights/covid-19-protection-framework/
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Auckland (N.Z.), Aotearoa, New Zealand, Unitec courses, social work students, online learning, social work education, Facebook, social media, COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-, Unitec Institute of Technology, online communities
ANZSRC Field of Research:
440999 Social work not elsewhere classified, 390308 Technical, further and workplace education, 390405 Educational technology and computing
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