Social media plays a vital role in providing us with information about different aspects of our daily lives and it has evolved in an integral part of modern society. Moreover, social media has increasingly gained credibility in recent years as a bottom-up platform where people can communicate, collaborate, create and share content and interact. Hence, it is of great importance to capitalise on the benefits and services that social media provides by implementing them in various domains. The use of social media in education allows students, who are mainly digital natives, to connect with educators, other students and diverse learning groups in a way that is familiar to them. This study proposes a framework concerning how social media could be used in education to make learning more enjoyable and engrossing and students more motivated and engaged in learning. Additionally, it analyses and discusses the outcome of a survey regarding students’ perspective on the introduction and use of social media in education. The results of this study show that the students regarded social media as a helpful and essential educational tool that can improve learning when applied in a student centred manner. Additionally, they considered social media as a means to promote, improve and facilitate group work which can boost their communication, collaboration and knowledge sharing with both their fellow students and educators and positively affect their academic performance.
Lampropoulos, G., Siakas, K., Anastasiadis, T., & Siakas, E. (2020). A framework for introducing social media in education: A student perspective survey. In Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Software Process Improvement-Research into Education and Training (INSPIRE), 55–63. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/348352158_A_Framework_for_Introducing_Social_Media_in_Education_A_Student_Perspective_Survey
Social media plays a vital role in providing us with information about different aspects of our daily lives and it has evolved in an integral part of modern society. Moreover, social media has increasingly gained credibility in recent years as a bottom-up platform where people can communicate, collaborate, create and share content and interact. Hence, it is of great importance to capitalise on the benefits and services that social media provides by implementing them in various domains. The use of social media in education allows students, who are mainly digital natives, to connect with educators, other students and diverse learning groups in a way that is familiar to them. This study proposes a framework concerning how social media could be used in education to make learning more enjoyable and engrossing and students more motivated and engaged in learning. Additionally, it analyses and discusses the outcome of a survey regarding students’ perspective on the introduction and use of social media in education. The results of this study show that the students regarded social media as a helpful and essential educational tool that can improve learning when applied in a student centred manner. Additionally, they considered social media as a means to promote, improve and facilitate group work which can boost their communication, collaboration and knowledge sharing with both their fellow students and educators and positively affect their academic performance.
@inproceedings{lampropoulos_2020_framework,
title = {A framework for introducing social media in education: A student perspective survey.},
author = {Lampropoulos, Georgios and Siakas, Kerstin and Anastasiadis, Theofylaktos and Siakas, Errikos},
booktitle = {In Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Software Process Improvement-Research into Education and Training (INSPIRE)},
pages = {55-63},
year = {2020},
country = {United Kingdom},
url = {https://www.researchgate.net/publication/348352158_A_Framework_for_Introducing_Social_Media_in_Education_A_Student_Perspective_Survey}
}
