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This paper presents partial results of a study conducted at two universities, Robert Morris University in Southwestern Pennsylvania and the University of Lagos, Nigeria in fall, 2013. Researchers developed a twenty-five question survey instrument based on the results of a pilot study conducted in summer, 2013. The purpose of the study was to determine how much and which social media students and instructors were using in their online courses to facilitate learning. Additionally, researchers were interested in learning if there were significant differences in the use of social media by students and instructors in different educational environments, such as a small private university in the United States compared with a much larger public institution in Nigeria. Comparing the use of social media in courses at both institutions, the pilot study of the same populations found significant differences in the use of certain types of social media in online course work. The pilot study also showed significant differences between the two student samples (RMU and U. Lagos) on the question of how helpful the use of certain technologies was to learning. In this study, a greater number of significant differences were found than were found in the pilot study for the same set of social media. In both studies, a significant difference was found in responses to a final question asking how soon students might adopt new technologies.
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