Use of Facebook to Support Module Delivery for Undergraduate Engineering Programmes

The relationship between students' engagement and effective learning is very well established. One of the most effective ways of engaging students is the students is through the use of online interactive tools. This papers reports on the use of facebook group to support students learning in 'Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer Module'. The facebook group was mainly used as discussion forum as well as a means to administer online quizzes. The number of students joined the facebook group and attempted the online quizzes grew steadily throughout the semester and the average performance in the quizzes improved as well. Students' feedback was solicited and majority of the students found the use of facebook to support their learning an engaging a useful experience. The authors intend to repeat the experiment in the next semester allowing the students the opportunity to submit their own versions of the quizzes to increase the level of participation and ownership.