Social Media as a Learning Tool: Impacts on Collaborative Learning and Knowledge Sharing

Through social media university students now work together more easily to learn and share knowledge with one another. Our research explores how YouTube WhatsApp and Facebook Groups boost student communication about learning material and assist classmates in accessing resources. Personal studies through set questionnaires helped measure student responses about their study process. Students showing more interest in social media showed better results in their studies at university (r = 0.72, p < 0.01) with the found relationships being statistically significant (β = 0.58, p < 0.01). Students struggle to focus on their studies because of distractions (60%), get misinformed (46.7%) while other part feels uneasy about privacy (36.7%). The data matches learning theories based on student interactions and individual-led educational methods. This exploration helps build digital learning knowledge by giving useful information to teachers and government officials. The research shows that institutions and schools should develop social media training and rules to help students use media platforms successfully in education. Next studies will evaluate long-term effects of AI systems plus education methods to support better educational results.