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This research paper introduces the concept of “serendipity” as a tool to design and to enhance the learning process, permitting students to find out new concepts and recognize seemingly unrelated connections among them. The research is based on the use of the social network Facebook: to make learning more efficient, permitting students to elaborate learning concepts and link them to what is already know (strength); to enhance the possibilities to find out new concepts (opportunity), through the flow of information generated by students and teachers; and to allow the inclusion of dyslexic students in the learning process (strength). The words chosen to generate messages have been analysed (conversation analysis) to avoid the use of such difficult terms or irrelevant information that could discourage an active participation of all students (threat). The analysis of the learning process has been done considering simultaneously three opposite qualities related to the students: objective/emotional, private/public and traditional/technological. The paper discusses how it is possible to analyse the learning process and make changes to facilitate serendipitous learning.
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Della Ventura, M. (2019). Monitoring the Learning Process to Enhance Motivation by Means of Learning by Discovery Using Facebook. In: Ma, W., Chan, W., Cheng, C. (eds) Shaping the Future of Education, Communication and Technology. Educational Communications and Technology Yearbook. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-6681-9_9
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