Additionally, findings may provide higher education instructors insight
into recognizing how social media technologies impact learning in conducting
project-oriented work. Just as managers in the workplace establish expectations
on how employee work groups can use available and emerging social media
technologies to be productive, instructors need to gain this same insight to
identify how social media technologies impact their students’ learning.
Instructors also could benefit from learning how students use the technologies to
better support stage development of teams doing group project work. Further,
findings may provide an understanding of how social networks within an
academic ecosystem and associated social media technologies can contribute (or
not contribute) to how students working on a group project learn together.