Exploring Social Media's Influence on Higher Education Students

This report explores the usage of social media among higher education students, examining its role in knowledge acquisition, communication, and learning. It highlights the widespread use of platforms like Facebook and WhatsApp, and their impact on student learning and information sharing. The report investigates the benefits of social media for educational purposes, including writing development, community building, and language learning. It also analyzes how students are using social media for awareness campaigns and discusses the evaluation of the literature using the CRAAP test to assess currency, relevance, authority, accuracy, and purpose. The conclusion emphasizes the multiple ways social media benefits students in their academic pursuits.

Research Skills and Using
Information
Social media

Table of Contents
• Introduction
• Main body
Background
Summary
Evaluation
• Conclusion
• reference

INTRODUCTION
• Social media is using by higher education students for the purpose to gain knowledge and spread
knowledge.
• Almost every platform which include Facebook, WhatsApp etc. are used by the higher education
students.

Background of topic
• Social media is very popular nowadays and its users are increasing day by day.
• It is massively used by the higher education students and all social media platforms are used by
them.

Summary of literature
• It is observed that in some of the
year’s social media is used by every
organization. So higher education is
not behind in this.
• Social media is the forum which is
helpful in targeting wide audience in
less time.

Cont..
• They are using social media so that they can communicate easily and fast with their same level of
students.
• It is also helpful in sharing important information in free of cost. Information which is shared can be
benefited to other students.

Cont..
• For the purpose of learning social media can be
used for many different purpose which include
writing development, community building, language
learning, curricular tool etc.
• Students perceptive towards learning are changing
after they has started using social media.

Cont..
• Students are not only using social media for the purpose of learning only but they are using it for
advertisement and also creating awareness.
• One the recent and social issues, students are using social media for spreading awareness.

Evaluation of the reliability of the literature
• It will be explained by using CRAAP test.
• CRAAP test have five elements which are given below.
• Currency
• Relevance

Cont..
• Authority
• Accuracy
• Purpose

CONCLUSION
• Through this study it can be concluded that social media is benefiting students in multiple
way.

REFERENCES
• Books and Journals
• Al-Rahmi, W.M. and et.al., 2018. A model of factors affecting learning performance through the
use of social media in Malaysian higher education. Computers & Education. 121. pp.59-72.