Acceptance factors on the use of social networks for academic purposes of management sciences students

• Authors: Alejandro Valencia , Mauricio Vélez-Salazar , Ana María Correa-Díaz , Carolina Vélez-Salazar

Abstracts

EN

This study examines factors involving the acceptance of social networks for academic purposes. A survey was applied to 290 graduate students as a quantitative methodological design. The main finding is that students thought that greater use of social networks for academic purposes would improve interaction and feedback among peers and also would improve teaching-learning processes. Also, students considered their skills as sufficient to use social networks for academic purposes, expressing their intention to incorporate them into the subjects dynamics.

Keywords

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learning; social networks; teaching innovation; university students; virtual

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
• Journal: The New Educational Review
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 42
• Pages: 133-143

Dates

published

2015

Contributors

author

Alejandro Valencia

author

Mauricio Vélez-Salazar

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Ana María Correa-Díaz

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Carolina Vélez-Salazar

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Identifiers

DOI

10.15804/tner.2015.42.4.11

Biblioteka Nauki

2011319