This is quite a nice paper (15 page PDF) that looks at the role of social media in learning. It is typically found to be limited by institutional constraints, as higher education institutions prefer their own platforms and methodologies. But "such assumptions limit conceptual understanding of how learning is organised and sustained in contexts where institutional provision is fragmented and digital infrastructure is unreliable," like, say, Liberia. Here, we see social media play a very different role. "Social media platforms function as de facto learning infrastructure (and) are frequently appropriated to support academic coordination, explanation, and peer learning in higher education contexts." The Constraint-Responsive Social Media Learning Framework (CR-SMLF) outlined in the paper describes this.
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