Acceptability of Facebook Messenger as a Medium of Online Instruction during the COVID – 19 Pandemic as Perceived by Filipino Students in the Countryside
- Country : Philippines
- Subject : Education
Keywords : Facebook Messenger, Medium of Online Instruction, COVID-9 Pandemic, Online class
Abstract
Since the classes in the Philippines were suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic last March 2020, teachers have worried how they are going to contact their students and conduct their classes. Several online applications were tried – zoom, google meet, edmodo, hangouts, facebook messenger, etc., all are but options, and not one is considered the most accepted. The purpose of the study was to see how the students perceive the use of Facebook Messenger as medium of online instruction during the COVID – 19 pandemics. Its goal was to find if there are relationships between the students’ profile to how they perceive the acceptability level of facebook messenger as a medium of online instruction in terms of usefulness and ease of use. This study utilized the descriptive correlational design, where it sought to describe how acceptable the facebook messenger as a medium of online instruction and how it relates to the profile of student respondents. Based on gathered data, results revealed that students find the facebook messenger as moderately acceptable as a medium of online instruction.
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