Alalwan Nasser
Computer Science Department, Community College, King Saud University, Riyadh, 11451 Saudi Arabia.
Educ Inf Technol (Dordr). 2022;27(7):9767-9789. doi: 10.1007/s10639-022-11014-7. Epub 2022 Apr 5.
Learners can interact and connect with one another in new ways thanks to social media. This study employs two models to investigate the factors that contribute to students' involvement in order to improve their learning: constructivism and the technology acceptance model (TAM). Therefore, the objective of this research is to create a model of real use of social media for engagement by conducting an empirical examination into students' adoption of actual use of social media for education. A survey was distributed to 410 university students in order to achieve this goal. A quantitative research approach and partial least squares structural equation modelling were used to acquire the results (PLS-SEM). The outcomes of our empirical examination suggest that determining discriminant validity has become a widely accepted prerequisite for analysing latent factor connections. The studies also demonstrated that using social media to engage students and improve their learning in higher education is extremely beneficial. The findings revealed real use of social media for interaction via interactions variables and TAM model acceptance. Students' pleasure with learning was also favourably associated to their actual usage of social media and involvement, according to the findings. As a conclusion, the result of R-Square's perceived usefulness was 0.611%, students' engagement was 0.561%, actual use of social media was 0.582%, students' satisfaction was 0.611%, and students' learning was 0.627%. This study's findings and ramifications are presented.
借助社交媒体，学习者能够以新的方式相互交流与联系。本研究采用两种模型来探究有助于学生参与度提升以促进其学习的因素：建构主义和技术接受模型（TAM）。因此，本研究的目的是通过对学生采用社交媒体实际用于教育的情况进行实证检验，创建一个社交媒体实际使用以促进参与度的模型。为实现这一目标，向410名大学生发放了调查问卷。采用定量研究方法和偏最小二乘结构方程模型（PLS - SEM）来获取结果。我们实证检验的结果表明，确定判别效度已成为分析潜在因素关系的广泛接受的前提条件。研究还表明，在高等教育中利用社交媒体促进学生参与并提高他们的学习非常有益。研究结果揭示了通过互动变量和TAM模型接受度来实际使用社交媒体进行互动。研究结果还显示，学生对学习的满意度也与他们实际使用社交媒体和参与度呈正相关。总之，R方感知有用性的结果为0.611%，学生参与度为0.561%，社交媒体实际使用为0.582%，学生满意度为0.611%，学生学习为0.627%。本文呈现了本研究的结果及影响。
