The use of edmodo: Its impact on learning and students' attitudes toward it

Abstract

Aim/Purpose Edmodo is a free and secure social learning network for teachers, students, and parents. This research aims to investigate the impact of using the Edmodo net-work among the students at Imam Abdulrahman bin Faisal University and stu-dents' attitudes toward it. Background The creators of e-learning systems have recently taken remarkable strides, in-cluding the development of a full range of techniques and means of communi-cation. Social networks encourage collaborative work and thus have huge poten-tial to increase information sharing among users, which makes these networks especially useful in academic and higher-education systems. Edmodo network is one of the main choices to be adopted in education process. Methodology This research has an experimental design based on a set of online tests. It also includes the development of a scale to determine students' attitudes toward Edmodo Contribution There is a lack of studies on the adoption of Edmodo within higher education. This research is an investigation of the impact that using Edmodo had on stu-dents at Imam Abdulrahman bin Faisal University. Findings The findings of this research show that using Edmodo leads to a statistically significant improvement in learning skills among higher-education students. The results also illustrate that students have positive attitudes toward the use of Edmodo in their courses. Recommendations for Practitioners Adopting Edmodo within their teaching model. Recommendations for Researchers More investigation on this topic with a larger number of participants is recom-mended Impact on Society This investigation provides society with better understanding of adopting Ed-modo within higher education. Future Research Further work should include investigations of this topic that include a larger number of participants with more diverse backgrounds. The challenges of us-ing Edmodo also need to be investigated in further studies.