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.