| Resumen |
This editorial presents an evolutionary model for the adoption of Social Media and
Social Networks in Academia. It seems that the rapid development of technological
infrastructures in the context of social networks had to face inflexible structures in Academic
Institutions in the same moment where students in a massive way adopt social networks for
different purposes than learning. The evolution of social media research in the last five years is
significant. A number of issues related to the formation, development and adoption of social
networks in different domains have been investigated promoting the scientific debate. In this
special issue the emphasis is on the adoption of social networks in learning and knowledge
management domains in academic settings. The bold contribution of our meta-analysis in this
guest editorial is the specification of the open research issues that can initiate further research.
To our understanding an evolutionary model is confirmed and defines a context of exploitation
for the contribution of social networks research towards more effective next generation learning
systems in academia. Beyond the fashion of use of social media for learning purposes, there is a
multidisciplinary orientation towards flexible personalized learning contexts. Furthermore a
number of enablers are presented. This editorial can serve as a position document for scientific
debate fostering international collaboration and empirical research in the various asp |
