Ozonuwe, O.S., Ayomide O.A., Ohwofasa, F. (2021). Use of social media and mobile apps for academic activities and resource sharing among postgraduate students of Covenant University, Ota, Nigeria.. Inter. J. Acad. Lib. Info. Sci. 9(4): 158-165

International Journal of Academic Library and Information Science

IJALIS

ISSN: 2360-7858

Vol. 9(4), pp. 158-165. April, 2021.

ISSN: 2360-7858

DOI: 10.14662/IJALIS2021.115

Full Length Research

Use of social media and mobile apps for academic activities and resource sharing among postgraduate students of Covenant University, Ota, Nigeria.

¹Ozonuwe Opene Sunday, ²Ayomide Ogundana Ademide and ³Ohwofasa Faith.

¹Crawford University, Igbesa, Ogun State, Nigeria.

Corresponding author's E-mail: openeozonuwe@crawforduniversity.edu.ng

²Department of Library, Archival and Information Studies, University of Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria.

3Hallmark University, Ijebu-Itele,Ogun State, Nigeria.

Accepted 23 April 2021

Abstract

This study examines the use of social media and mobile apps for information and resource sharing among postgraduate students of Covenant University, Canaanland, Ota, Ogun State, Nigeria.It focused on the -21st -century trends that helps students and researchers in depositing their files, and documents on the cloud and are still able to share them with friends, family and acquaintances time and boundary notwithstanding. Three research objectives and three research questions were formulated to put the paper in the right direction. The descriptive survey research design was adopted for the study. A structured questionnaire was the instrument of data collection. The population of the study was 365 registered postgraduate student of Covenant University (CU), 2017/2018 academic year. The questionnaire responses was analyzed using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS). The data obtained were presented using frequency distribution and percentage. The findings of this study reveals that majority of the postgraduate students of Covenant University uses social media platforms and mobile apps for research and assignment, news and book marking, entertainment and relaxation, online lectures and mobile learning, online dating and romance, evangelism and soul-winning among others. The wrong notion about the use of social media and mobile apps by the teacher, lack of awareness of the use of social media and mobile apps among other were the major challenges. It was recommended that the students should explore webinar, G suite, Mendeley, Google apps, academia.edu and researchgate.net in collaborating with other scholars and researchers in their fields of interest.

Keyword: Social Media, Mobile Apps, Resource Sharing, 21st century trends.

	Cite This Article As: Ozonuwe, O.S., Ayomide O.A., Ohwofasa, F. (2021). Use of social media and mobile apps for academic activities and resource sharing among postgraduate students of Covenant University, Ota, Nigeria.. Inter. J. Acad. Lib. Info. Sci. 9(4): 158-165