THE INFLUENCE OF SOCIAL MEDIA ON LECTURER-STUDENT INTERACTION IN CRESCENT UNIVERSITY, ABEOKUTA
Abstract
The use of social media has become a widespread phenomenon among all age groups. However, the emerges of social media is not just a result of technological changes and popularization of internet. It is rather a qualitative transformation which profoundly changed in the patterns of knowledge acquisition and interaction. For years, internet has been recognized has an appropriate and convenient media for distract learning, consequently, the growth rate in the number of learners engaging with some types of online education significantly exceeded the growth rate of traditional classroom lectures. Hence many scholars have defined social media in different ways. (Ferine et al., 2023, and Tarigan et al.,2023) defined social media as an internet-based platforms or websites that enable users to engage in various activities, such as sharing information, communicating, interacting, and collaborating with others online. social media in the concept of higher education emerge from an informal mean of communication to a strategic educational tool.
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