Awareness and use of social network among undergraduate students of Kaduna State College of Education Gidan Waya

Abstract

Social Network services are growing rapidly among the young generation all over the world especially for academic activities. Undergraduate students of Kaduna State Colleges of Education Gidan waya widely engaged using Social Network. Thus, this study was designed to find out the use of social network for academic activities among undergraduate students of Kaduna State College of Education, Gidan waya. A survey research design was adopted to collect the relevant data of study, questionnaires were administered among the undergraduates students, subsequently; simple percentage and mean was applied to analyze the relevant data of the study. Findings from the study revealed that most of the undergraduate students of Kaduna State College of Education, Gidan Waya have use Social Network for Academic purposes. Students have the following awareness level on the use of Social Network for Academic purposes; they know the use of social Network for academic purposes, they know the implication of the use of the Social Network for academic purposes, they know how to use the Social Network for academic purposes, they know how to operate the Social Network applications for academic purposes and know the relevance of social network applications for academic purposes. The challenges faced on the use of social network platform use for academic programme activities among undergraduate students in Kaduna State College of Education Gidan Waya are high cost of data is a challenge to the use of social network among undergraduate students, lack of technical skills on use and operation of social media gadgets is a challenge of use of social network among undergraduate students lack of use of social network by lecturers for academic activities, activities of hackers, high cost of social network gadgets and cyber bulling. The researchers recommends that lecturers should encourage the use of social network services for academic purposes.