Students´ usage of social media as asupplement to their studies

Abstract: Students’ usage of social media for their studies has increased enormously over the last years. They use these social media to interact with other students, work on their projects and much more. (Roblyer et al. 2010a) Most universities have their own platform for file sharing, communication and even other school related tasks available for both students and teachers. However, students still turn to other media for doing their schoolwork. The purpose of this study is to investigate how satisfied the students of two universities, KTH in Stockholm and UCA in Buenos Aires, are with their school platforms, and to find out the reasons behind why they turn to other media as a supplement for their studies. In order to achieve substantial results we chose to make a questionnaire and send it to students from both universities, as well as having one focus group in each university. The results of the study showed that these platforms needed to be improved in some aspects in order to get more satisfaction from the users and fulfill their needs. However, students will still be using social media and other sorts of media for communicating with each other and doing school related work, since social media has become a big part of their everyday life.