Experiences of students regarding the use of Facebook for mentoring : a case of a writing centre

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dc.contributor.advisorNg'ambi, Dicken_ZA
dc.contributor.authorNgodwana, Khanyisileen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2015-05-27T04:05:09Z
dc.date.available2015-05-27T04:05:09Z
dc.date.issued2014en_ZA
dc.descriptionIncludes bibliographical references.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractOver the last 15 years, many South African universities have established Writing Centres as places to provide academic writing support to their students. The services offered are mostly free and voluntary and as such, there are no strict regulations regarding who should use them, and how often they should visit. Consequently, writing centres especially the newly established ones struggle to monitor the progress of the students they have helped once they have left the place, or even reach students in the places where they continue to write in order to offer additional support to students, which could positively influence their writing self-efficacy. This design-based research case study reports on an intervention run by one such writing centre where social media, specifically Facebook due to its popularity among students, was explored as a technology that can be adopted to reach and offer help to students beyond the confines of its physical space.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationNgodwana, K. (2014). <i>Experiences of students regarding the use of Facebook for mentoring : a case of a writing centre</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,School of Education. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12884en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationNgodwana, Khanyisile. <i>"Experiences of students regarding the use of Facebook for mentoring : a case of a writing centre."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,School of Education, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12884en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationNgodwana, K. 2014. Experiences of students regarding the use of Facebook for mentoring : a case of a writing centre. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Ngodwana, Khanyisile AB - Over the last 15 years, many South African universities have established Writing Centres as places to provide academic writing support to their students. The services offered are mostly free and voluntary and as such, there are no strict regulations regarding who should use them, and how often they should visit. Consequently, writing centres especially the newly established ones struggle to monitor the progress of the students they have helped once they have left the place, or even reach students in the places where they continue to write in order to offer additional support to students, which could positively influence their writing self-efficacy. This design-based research case study reports on an intervention run by one such writing centre where social media, specifically Facebook due to its popularity among students, was explored as a technology that can be adopted to reach and offer help to students beyond the confines of its physical space. DA - 2014 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2014 T1 - Experiences of students regarding the use of Facebook for mentoring : a case of a writing centre TI - Experiences of students regarding the use of Facebook for mentoring : a case of a writing centre UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12884 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/12884
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationNgodwana K. Experiences of students regarding the use of Facebook for mentoring : a case of a writing centre. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,School of Education, 2014 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12884en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentSchool of Educationen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Humanitiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subject.otherEducation (ICTs)en_ZA
dc.titleExperiences of students regarding the use of Facebook for mentoring : a case of a writing centreen_ZA
dc.typeMaster Thesis
dc.type.qualificationlevelMasters
dc.type.qualificationnameMPhilen_ZA
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