Information and Communications Technology (ICT) evolves so fast in which all sectors of the society maximize its use and potential. ICT is playing a vital role to promote learning that is why many universities and educational institutions is utilizing it. Philippines is not exempted in the implementation of ICT in the educational sector. Also, Philippines through the Commission on Higher Education is promoting Open Distance Education supported by RA 10650 known as “An Act Expanding Access to Educational Services by Institutionalizing Open Distance Learning in Levels of Tertiary Education and Appropriating Funds There for”. With Open Distance Learning, one way to implement is through the use of ICT and the Internet. With the Internet, social media sites like Facebook have become very popular even in the education sector. With this, the study was conducted to assess the use of Facebook Group to support onsite delivery of instruction. Survey questionnaire was used to gather data while frequency count, percentage, rank and weighted mean were used to assess the use of Facebook Group to support onsite delivery of instruction. Result of the study revealed that Facebook Group is widely used in education and many of the activities and features were maximized. Moreover, Facebook Group greatly helps the students wherein the respondents experienced many of the benefits of Facebook Group to support onsite delivery of instruction. Lastly, the respondents like the idea to really utilize Facebook Groups to support onsite delivery of instruction as an alternative to existing Learning Management Systems.
Social Media, Facebook Groups, Teaching and Learning, Information and Communications Technology, Learning Management System
