The Impact of Social Media Participation on Academic Performance in Undergraduate and Postgraduate Students

The main objective of this study was to analyse the influence of social media participation on academic performance. The sample consisted of 1960 students taking one of two courses at undergraduate or postgraduate level, respectively (Faculty of Education, National Distance Education University, Sp...

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Autor principal:	Sonia Santoveña Casal
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Lenguaje:	EN
Publicado:	Athabasca University Press 2019
Materias:	Social participation Twitter academic performance educational level Special aspects of education LC8-6691
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:9caf3b8c19e84388a4d3fe57a86e1b882021-12-02T19:20:53ZThe Impact of Social Media Participation on Academic Performance in Undergraduate and Postgraduate Students10.19173/irrodl.v20i1.37511492-3831https://doaj.org/article/9caf3b8c19e84388a4d3fe57a86e1b882019-02-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/3751https://doaj.org/toc/1492-3831 The main objective of this study was to analyse the influence of social media participation on academic performance. The sample consisted of 1960 students taking one of two courses at undergraduate or postgraduate level, respectively (Faculty of Education, National Distance Education University, Spain), of whom 411 students carried out an activity based on social media participation. We used a mixed quantitative (descriptive analysis and ANOVA) and qualitative (content analysis) design. Our results showed that the students who participated in a social media-based activity presented better academic performance than those who did not carry out any activity or who took part in a more traditional learning activity. We conclude that regardless of educational level, social media participation exerts a positive influence on performance. Consequently, it is important to consider the variable of social networking site use because this can partially explain academic performance. We also found that the networks generated during the course did not constitute stable communities of practice. Our main recommendation is that three stages of instruction should be considered when designing a course based on social media participation: beginners, intermediate, and professional. Sonia Santoveña CasalAthabasca University PressarticleSocial participationTwitteracademic performanceeducational levelSpecial aspects of educationLC8-6691ENInternational Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, Vol 20, Iss 1 (2019)
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description	The main objective of this study was to analyse the influence of social media participation on academic performance. The sample consisted of 1960 students taking one of two courses at undergraduate or postgraduate level, respectively (Faculty of Education, National Distance Education University, Spain), of whom 411 students carried out an activity based on social media participation. We used a mixed quantitative (descriptive analysis and ANOVA) and qualitative (content analysis) design. Our results showed that the students who participated in a social media-based activity presented better academic performance than those who did not carry out any activity or who took part in a more traditional learning activity. We conclude that regardless of educational level, social media participation exerts a positive influence on performance. Consequently, it is important to consider the variable of social networking site use because this can partially explain academic performance. We also found that the networks generated during the course did not constitute stable communities of practice. Our main recommendation is that three stages of instruction should be considered when designing a course based on social media participation: beginners, intermediate, and professional.
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The Impact of Social Media Participation on Academic Performance in Undergraduate and Postgraduate Students

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