Title: The Use of Social Media in Higher Education for Classroom Management in Nigeria: An Overview
Author(s): Yakubu Attahiru Liman, Hauwa Musa Yunusa, Chukwudum Maureen Jegbefume & Aishatu Halilu Umar Miringa
Publication Year: 2023; Volume 18, Issue 3, pages 42-47

This paper focused on the use of social media in managing classroom activities in higher education in Gombe State. The use of social media is pervasive as it cuts across every sector of life; be it social, political, economic, and cultural and education. It is on this premises that this paper examines the impact of social media as tools for managing classroom activities. Social media tools change the learning environment through access to communication, interactions and sharing of ideas. The paper also discusses the ability of the users of social media to converse and interact with each other, to create, edit, and share forms of textual, visual and audio content. The paper maintain that social media the application classroom management which allowed for students-teachers to converse and interact with each other for effective learning. That is, It is an online space that is used to connect, share, communicate, establish or maintain a connection with others for the purposes of improving learning, teaching and feed-back processes. Literature revealed that social media enables learners to build social networks, confidence for the personal or career interests, activities, backgrounds or real-life connections. The paper portrays that social media have vital influence on lives they help in various fields of life; especially in educational field. The paper concludes that social media provide avenue for interaction and sharing of knowledge among the students as a way of improving learning capability. The study advocate that social media have become a platform that improve learning and enhance research output as a way forward for effective classroom management.