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The overall review of the sampled respondents and the total outcome of the figures from Table

1.1 through 1.5 may have shown significant support that the use of social media might result in the

improvement of student learning outcomes. It also shows how students’ have voiced their opinion on how

and where they would like to be instructed. Question 1.5 clearly shows that students’ most of whom are

full-time employees and parents would prefer to use the social media in the submission of their school

work including examinations and responding to teacher’s inquiry than face-to-face teacher/student

activities that require a teacher live in the classroom. Their preference lean more towards the completion

of their work in the comfort of their homes after a daily rigorous and tiring work related responsibilities.

Recommendations

The increasing focus on improving student learning in meeting excellence in teaching, learning

and training students’ challenges many assumptions about the respective roles of students and faculty. As

a student-centered institution with education of the students as its major responsibility, faculty in these

institutions of higher learning should take on less responsibility for being sources of knowledge, and

rather assume greater role as facilitators of a broad range of learning experiences which will make

students at these institutions accountable for their own learning.

Borrowing from Bloom’s taxonomy for educational objectives and reviewing its impact on

teaching and learning, Nigeria tertiary institutions should tailor their student learning objectives towards

the six principles of Bloom’s taxonomy. These principles which are: remembering, understanding,

applying, analyzing, evaluating, and creating assists in assessing whether learning has adequately taken

place. At the remembering level, the question as to whether the students can recall or remember the

information covered in the class must be measured (Remembering).

At the understanding level, the question addresses whether the students can explain ideas or the

concepts covered in the classroom (Understanding). The next level then questions whether the

students can use the information they remembered and were able to understand in a new way

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