Impact of social media in education among the engineering graduates with special reference to Chennai city

Abstract

In today’s realm of connected knowledge, the impact of social media on education has become a major motivating element. Reaching other parts of the world has become easy, and with the help of technology such as social media, the style of delivering instruction has been constantly shifting. Many educational platforms such as Swayam, MOOC, NPTEL, Virtual labs, Udemy, etc provides online teaching to the students in a very effective way. The technical tools that permit these podiums to function are also one of the driving forces behind the impact of this technology on learning. Teachers have started to equip themselves into the arcade of electronic avenues. Students too have started to use the Social media for education purposes. Hence the topic on Impact of social media in Education among the Engineering graduates would be an eye-opener for all the teaching and learning community to equip themselves to web connected learning through social media. In this paper, the authors have made a conscious effort in studying the social media effect in education among the engineering graduates using ANOVA and T-Test.