IMPACT OF SOCIAL MEDIA ON ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF STUDENTS IN NIGERIA - Softcover

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In recent years, technology has tried to fulfill its role in helping humanity leading to the substantial medium of interaction in the social world as well as in teaching and learning. Over the years those in higher education has explore the exciting opportunities new technologies bring to institutions, educators and students. Technology has changed the way people interact and has brought about the emergence of an open social platform such as social media that allows the inhabitants of this planet earth to connect with each other making the world a global village. Social media such as Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, and WhatsApp are being used in learning for the purpose of convenient communication with other students and potentially with others outside the class such as students of the same topic and subject experts. The advent of social media has impacted significantly on how students learn and the mode instructors teach. In today higher education settings, social media is having influence instructors, students, and others to cooperate with each other on the tasks of knowledge construction in learning and teaching environments.

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