Social Media as Learning Enviroments: University Students Perceptions

The massive penetration of social networks among the population of all ages continues to rise year after year. These digital environments have become naturalized spaces for socializing, entertainment, information, communication, work, and even education. The use of these environments as learning spaces is a developing area that requires strategic didactic designs that integrate these scenarios transversely into the learning process. In this sense, the aim of this paper is to present part of the results of a teaching innovation project focused on the integration of networks as learning spaces. The perceptions of the 435 university students participating in the project on the importance they give to social networks, their training needs in this regard, and the areas where they believe these spaces have the greatest influence were collected. Using a quantitative methodology, the results yield interesting data from which we can deduce the importance of including social networks as learning spaces for the correct digital literacy of students to enable them to have real critical thinking when using these spaces.