STUDENT PERCEPTIONS OF HOW SOCIAL NETWORKS CAN CONTRIBUTE TO CREATE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT

This paper is one of the outcomes of project "Communication and Collaboration in Virtual Learning Environments" that was realized at Nesna University College in the academic year 2014/15. The purpose of this article is to analyse students' perception of social media as learning environment, and the engagement in networked activities within online course "ICT in society" coordinated by LMS Moodle. The final sample was configured by 15 students from Nesna University College (Norway), the University of Szczecin (Poland) and the University of Extremadura (Spain) that successfully accomplished all the assignments. The study was conducted during the spring semester. The results give some clues about students' engagement in the process of knowledge through social networks.