| Summary: | 碩士 === 中國文化大學 === 資訊管理學系 === 98 === With social networking service, learners can continuously participate in, communicate with, connect and manage the social aggregation which connects interpersonal relations of groups within a cyberspace. In order to enhance the learning efficiency of enterprise resource planning (ERP) learners who aim to learn English terminology related to e-businesses, this essay combine the online English crossword puzzle and the social networking discussion platform to improve learners’ knowledge about English terminology related to e-businesses. This essay investigates the distinction of learning efficiency between before and after learners utilize the social networking discussion platform. In this research, learners were adaptively divided into groups depending on their learning capacity.
There are two steps in this essay. The first step aims to discuss how students in class A utilize the social networking discussion platform to have an online discussion and confirm the answer to submit by vote in the end. To go to such extent as to those students in class B, they were divided into groups as well; however, their learning strategy is self-studying. In spite of the fact that they also confirm the answer to submit by vote; nevertheless, they did not have an online discussion by utilizing the social networking discussion platform. Contrarily, the second step aims to discuss how students in class B utilize the social networking discussion platform to have an online discussion and confirm the answer to submit by vote in the end. However, students in class A use self-studying as their learning strategy and confirm the answer to submit by vote as class B. Basic variables are mentioned above; moreover, there are other variables, such as combination of dissimilar environment of group discussions, to investigate if there are differences. This experimentation reveals that utilizing the social networking discussion platform to learn by playing the crossword puzzle can improve the learning performance of English terminology related to e-businesses. It enhances the participation of group members toward the game as well.
This essay records the learning process of those learners with the database of the crossword puzzle website. Also, learners filled out questionnaire to show how satisfied they were with the learning style they experienced. Data collected in this experimentation were also processed into statistical analysis, which can provide suggestions on teaching with crossword puzzle combining with social networking service.
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