Acceptance model of social media for informal learning

Abstract

Social media is growing at an alarming rate and it holds a great potential for our very lives. These potentials can be exploited in improving the acceptance of informal learning. Informal learning have broken the barriers that are inherent in the old order of formal learning. However, there is a paucity of research in the area of social media techniques as it relates to informal learning. Additionally, practitioners are unfamiliar of the factors that influence researchers’ acceptance of social media for informal learning. This study aim to develop a conceptual model to investigate the acceptance of social media for informal learning. To achieve this aim, the study integrates several theories as a foundation for its conceptual model: Technology Acceptance Model 3, Constructivism theory and other factors from the some studies related to the context. The findings of this study would improve our understanding of the inter play of social media and informal learning. Additionally, practitioners will become familiar of those factors that inhibit the acceptance of social media for informal learning.