Investigating the impact of the sense of privacy on the correlation between online learning interaction and students’ academic performance

The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of the sense of privacy on the correlation between online learning discussion on Social Networking Sites (SNS) and students’ academic performance. Moreover, the study explores the actual use of SNS as a platform for students’ and teacher online learning discussion. The sources of the data collection are students’ and teachers’ responses to online interaction questionnaire and the content of their online discussion. The data analysis involves the use of SPSS to analyse the descriptive data while SmartPLS to be used to analyse the correlations between online learning interaction and academic performance moderated by students sense of privacy. The analysis of the online interaction through the pre-determined themes using Nvivo software. The researchers expect a positive relationship between online interaction and students’ academic performance. Moreover, students’ sense of privacy on SNSs might negatively affects the relationship between course-related discussion via SNSs and SNSs students’ academic performance. The findings of this study aim to encourage instructors, students, and higher education institutions to consider students’ sense of privacy when implementing SNS for online learning interaction.