Open AccessInfluence of COVID on the educational use of Social Media by students of Teaching Degrees
Author(s) -
Diego Calderón-Garrido,
Alicia León-Gómez,
Raquel Gil Fernández
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
education in the knowledge society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.221
H-Index - 9
ISSN - 2444-8729
DOI - 10.14201/eks.23623
Subject(s) - covid-19 , social media , sample (material) , psychology , sociology , mathematics education , higher education , medical education , pedagogy , political science , medicine , chemistry , virology , outbreak , infectious disease (medical specialty) , law , disease , pathology , chromatography
The situation caused by SARS-CoV-2 has resulted in the intensive use of technology in all fields, including education and interactions between students. This research seeks to identify changes in the way social media have been used for educational purposes by students of teaching degrees both before and after lockdown. Based on an online survey administered to a sample of 424 students from different Spanish universities in which it has been observed how their use has generally been very similar, although significant differences have been detected according to the kind of university. In this capacity, the use of social media for academic purposes has increased in universities offering traditional classroom-based courses, while it has remained the same in virtual universities which, due to their particular idiosyncrasies, have not been directly affected.