Attitude of Students Towards Social Media Enabled Learning In The Digital Era

Abstract

The modern world is basically technology-driven. Technological advancements can be seen in every aspect of the present era. The technological progress in the communication sector resulted in the advent of Social media. Social media is one of the trending technology through which people communicate with each other. This user-friendly technology helped people to build virtual networks and communities. In the present scenario, the onset of worldwide pandemic Corona virus disease (covid-19) changed the lifestyle of the world entirely. When people shifted from normal to new-normal lifestyle, Social media became their foremost priority. During this pandemic situation, Social media helped people to connect with each other thereby creating a virtual world. During lockdown days, the smooth functioning of every field including the education sector was made possible with the use of Social media. In this study, Social Media Enabled Learning module was developed and implemented on a group of students in order to analyse their attitude towards learning with the help of social media. The widely used Social media application namely Whatsapp has been used for the study since it is a universally accepted Social media platform and it is also user-oriented. The attitude of students towards Social Media Enabled Learning and also the variations of students attitude with respect to locale are analysed in this study.