Haroon-Sulyman, Shakirat O. (2020)

This study investigates the use of social media for teaching and learning among the lecturers and students at the University of Ilorin and Al-Hikmah University in Ilorin, Kwara State, Nigeria. The study was aimed at examining the adoption of social media for teaching and learning among lecturers and students' respectively. A total of 430 respondents comprising of both lecturers and students were analyzed using frequency counts and simple percentages. The findings from the study revealed that social media can be adopted and used for lessons. Also, lecturers and students assent that social media can be used to achieve better results if integrated into lessons. However, the results showed that WhatsApp is the most used and most reliable tool for teaching and learning by lecturers and students of the University of Ilorin and Al-Hikmah University, Ilorin. It is thereby recommended that apart from WhatsApp, the lecturers and students of the University of Ilorin, Al-Hikmah University, and other institutions are requested to adopt other social media such as Google+, Skype and YouTube as an educational tool to facilitate the teaching and learning process to achieve better results in their academics.