Impact of Social Media Usage in e-learning towards Students’ Academic Achievements during Pandemic Covid19

Abstract

With the advancement of technology, social media positively and negatively influence students' academic achievement, mainly in higher institutions. The increased number of social media accounts shows that teenager mostly spends their time on social media. Thus, this paper will discuss and assess the impact of social media usage in an e-learning environment on student academic achievement in a higher education institution. Social media could be a tool or learning aid for them to improve their academic by joining online group learning, virtual meetings, and video conferencing to communicate with an expert within their field. The published and unpublished work has been dug out through online platforms to know and understand the impact of social media on student academic achievement. Keywords: Social Media, Student, Academic Achievement, Social Networking Sites (SNS) eISSN: 2398-4287 © 2022. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by E-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open-access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer-review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behavior Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioral Researchers on Asians), and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behavior Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia.