Research on SNS and education: The state of the art and its challenges

Abstract

This paper presents, for further discussion, a review of the scientific literature produced internationally on the use of Social Network Sites (SNS) in different levels of education and settings. A total of 62 articles published in international scientific journals with peer review have been analysed. The main objective of this paper is to discuss the most recurrent lines of research since the emergence of these tools in education. The level of education in which research is carried out is also analysed, as well as the paradigms and methods used for data collection. The analysis leads to the conclusion that most of the studies analysed have been carried out in higher education, from a quantitative paradigm, focusing on the use of SNS as educational tools. This article shows that research into SNS in education is at an early stage of development, and it demonstrates the need to widen lines of research on SNS in media education to include as yet unexplored dimensions. Corresponding author: Carlos Rodríguez-Hoyos, rodriguezhc@unican.es Australasian Journal of Educational Technology © 2015.Please cite as: Rodríguez-Hoyos, C., Haya, I., Fernández-Díaz, E. (2015). Research on SNS and education: The state of the art and its challenges.

Social networking and academic performance: A review

“…The uptake of SNS by this population has naturally attracted academic interest. Given the widespread use and importance of SNS (Greenhow and Askari 2015;Manca and Ranieri 2015;Rodríguez-Hoyos et al 2015), the issue of how they affect students is of clear relevance to educators as well as researchers, and warrants further investigation. This paper proceeds from and highlights the importance of SNS and the influences resulting from use.…”

“…Although the body of research on SNS use is quickly expanding (Greenhow and Askari 2015;Manca and Ranieri 2015;Rodríguez-Hoyos et al 2015), one direction of effort-connecting SNS use and various academic phenomenaremains sparsely addressed and lacking consensus (e.g., Ahn 2011; Ainin et al 2015;Alwagait et al 2014;Karpinski et al 2013). Hence, an important question in this stream of research concerns the effects of SNS use on academic outcomes.…”

Social media use by instructional design departments

“…The bulk of this literature focuses on using social media to improve learning experiences in higher education (Gao et al, 2012;Rodríguez-Hoyos et al, 2015).…”

“…Such adoption rates seem to be a global trend (Poushter, 2016), and it can be said that social media use has become an integral part of many people's daily lives (Aydin, 2012;Rodríguez-Hoyos, Salmón, & Fernández-Díaz, 2015). Used as a means of communication, collaboration, and content creation (Alzouebi & Isakovic, 2014;Luo, Wang, & Han, 2013), social media are used in a wide array of settings, including educational ones (Dabbagh & Kitsantas, 2012;Manca & Ranieri, 2016.…”

Utilization of Social Networking Service (SNS)’s Features for Education as an Effective Learning Tool – Analysis of Nepalese Youth live in Japan

“…The variables of SNS; (1) Communication, (2) Sharing, (3) Finding and learning are centralized and explored about the effects on quality education through such variables. SNS and education is for the most part focused on analyzing different variable within higher education [13]. Specially, as this research is concentrated on new generation, the youths of age between 15-30 are taken as samples for the study.…”