Determining the effect of using social media as a MOOC tool

The peak use of social media of today's technology has paved the way for using the new trends in education. Through Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), the individuals follow the education and can get certificates due to these trainings. This study aims to determine how often the students benefit from their social media accounts for self-development and also to determine how the use of MOOCs program via social media cause a positive effect for the future studies. The 248 students who participated in this study have expressed that they had followed their accounts regarding to their fields and also had obtained information from these pages. The participants said that, they had created many solutions for too much difficulties they face in real life and visual, written materials and videos loaded on social media. They have also mentioned that, they preferred the social media rather than obtaining information from pages related to MOOCs. The students who want to attend to any certificate program on social media said that; their social media accounts that they follow daily on either web or mobile media is an information obtaining and transferring tool. They have pointed out that, the duration and quality of videos they reach on social media was important and when they are high quality they obtain more permanent information. The questionnaire of the study was developed by the researcher. The research is quantitative and the data analysis was done by SPSS program. The data were solved and interpreted through tabulating the frequency, percentage and descriptive analyze. In future studies; experimental studies will be held by creating a MOOCs page on social media.