The Relationship between Social Media Self-efficacy and Learning Engagement of College Students

Social media, with its rich learning resources, is regarded as an important online learning community. Social media self-efficacy is learners' belief that they use social media to search, communicate and learn information within social media. Learning engagement is an important index to evaluate the success of learning and instructions. This study aims to investigate the relationship between college students' social media self-efficacy and learning engagement. An investigation was conducted on 542 college students who could independently use social media for online learning. The results showed that college students with high social media self-efficacy had a higher degree of learning engagement in online learning. It is suggested that students' social media self-efficacy can be improved in order to enhance their learning engagement in the information era.