واقع استخدام الطلبة وسائل التواصل الاجتماعي في أثناء تعلمهم في ضوء مهارة الثقافة المعلوماتية

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This study aims to identify students' use of social media for learning purposes based on the skill of information literature using a descriptive survey method (579) higher education students participated in this study form different Saudi universities via online survey.

The results of the study concluded that there is a difference in students' current practices of information literature skill from social media tool to another, and it indicated the high application of aspects related to the use of information and the low application of information validity, reliability, and referencing.

The study also found that students' have high perceived degree of ability to apply the information literacy skill in their learning purposes with no statistical significance results in terms of gender variable while it showed a signif icant statistical difference attributed the variable of educational level in favor of PhD students.

The study concluded by mentioning recommendations for future and experimental studies related to the subject of the current study.