Impact of Social Media Usage on the Academic Engagement of Undergraduates in Universities in Edo and Delta States

This study assessed the “Impact of Social Media Usage on the Academic Engagement of Undergraduates in Universities in Edo and Delta States”. Specifically, the objectives were to; determine the impact of social media frequency of visit, time spent and number of followership with social media on students’ academic engagement. The theory underpinning this work is the constructivism learning theory. The study adopted the descriptive-survey design. The population of the study consisted of 1,528 science education undergraduates and a sample size of 764 respondents representing 50% was drawn from the population using the purposive sampling technique. Questionnaire was used to solicit information. Mean and standard deviation were used in answering the research questions, while the statistical regression analysis was used in testing the hypotheses. The entire hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. The result of the analysis showed that there is a significant relationship between the dependent and the independent variable. Based on the findings, the study recommended that students should be better educated on the use of social media, how to effectively use it and the ability to strike a balance between the use of social media and their academic engagements.