What is it about?
Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, Pinterest and Instagram sparked by social media are now popular across the globe. Do these virtual spaces stimulate scholarship in students? This paper examines the views of university students on social networking sites(SNSs) adoption for educational purposes.
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Why is it important?
This study suggests that perceived usefulness,perceived ease of use,the existence of facilitating conditions and the purposes of SNSs are the key factors that motivate students to adopt SNSs for academic purposes.
Perspectives
Individuals, instructors, administrators and policy makers interested in the integration of web-based social networking tools in classroom work would find this paper very revealing.
Godfred owusu
University of Ghana
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This page is a summary of: Adoption of social networking sites for educational use, Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, February 2019, Emerald,
DOI: 10.1108/jarhe-04-2018-0069.
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