Use of the social network as a technological-pedagogical tool in the higher education process

Nowadays, teaching-learning activities carried out in universities are being modified due to the emergence of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). In particular, social networks represent a creative and innovative proposal to improve the way of transmitting and assimilating the contents included in the subjects. For this reason, this research examines the impact of using Facebook during the teaching of the Propositional Logical Unit corresponding to the Computational Mathematics course at La Salle University in Mexico City. The sample is composed of 20 students from the 2016-2 school year (experimental group) who used this social network and 49 students from the courses 2015-2 and 2014-2 (control group). Through the quantitative approach, this study evaluates the academic performance of these students and analyzes the use of Facebook as a technological-pedagogical tool to facilitate the educational process, improve of knowledge and motivate learning. Finally, teachers have the opportunity to update the processes involved for the organization of the subjects through the tools of information and communication. In particular, this research recommends the incorporation of social networks.