Lecturers' perception on social media networks uses in education

Reputation of higher education institutes are significantly affected by the degree of the students' satisfactions. Therefore, considering students opinions about the quality of education is very important in order to maintain the academic institutes' reputation. Thus, the use of social media in the assessment of course quality enhances the education outcomes. Most universities explore their students' views about the quality of the offered courses using online and paper based questionnaires. However, the students' opinions in social media such as Facebook and twitters are not considered in the courses assessment of universities. This paper conduct a study on how university lectures react toward the students views throughout the social media. The contain analysis approach has been used to accomplish this study. The results showed that involving social media in courses assessments strengthen truthfulness of the courses evaluations results.