Facebook as a Learning Management System for Filipino Tourism Students

Faculty members are already utilizing learning management systems to facilitate learning in class.
Facebook, although not a learning management system, is utilized by instructors to disseminate
academic related information and to communicate to their students. This paper looks at the perceived
effects of Facebook as a learning management system; additionally, it aims to determine the selfreported
Facebook usage of tourism students in a state-owned university in Leyte. This study employed
a simple descriptive research design and used a self-made questionnaire. The determined sample
size in this study is 81 at 95% confidence level and ±5% margin of error. The population consists of
Bachelor of Science in Tourism, Hotel and Restaurant Management students who were enrolled in
the Entrepreneurship and Project Feasibility Study course on the second semester of the school year
2017-2018 in a state-owned university in Leyte. This research revealed that Facebook does not help
collaboration between peers and academic related activities of Filipino tourism students. Furthermore,
it shows that 98% of the students have daily access to their Facebook accounts. Hence, the presence of
high internet penetration level.