ABSTRACT

Abstract

The main objective of this study was to investigate influence of area of specialisation on undergraduates’ access to and attitude towards the utilisation of social media for learning in Nigeria. The study investigated i. influence of area of specialisation on undergraduates’ access to social media for learning and ii. influence of area of specialisation on undergraduates’ attitude towards social media for learning. The study was a descriptive research of the survey method using stratified, proportional and random sampling techniques to draw a sample of 1,121 (592 males and 529 females) undergraduates from target population of 205,083 in nine universities in South-west, Nigeria. The main research instrument employed for data collection was a validated adapted questionnaire. Two research hypotheses were formulated and tested in the study using Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) at 0.05 significant level. The findings of the study indicated that there was significant difference in undergraduates’ access to social media for learning based on area of specialisation with F (df 3, 1,117 = 4.98, p<0.05) in favour of education and there was significant difference in undergraduates’ attitude towards social media for learning based on area of specialisation with F (df 3, 1,117 = 12.04, p < 0.05) in favour of social sciences