ABSTRACT
The paper deals with utilization of selected social media where learning management system plays a comprehensive and stable role in the teaching/learning process in the university setting. The goal of the paper is to show the acceptance and a level of appropriateness of social media for study purposes perceived by students. Results from three consecutive studies form the backbone of the presented paper showing the trends in the acceptance of social media and satisfaction with them. Two areas are analysed: social media as a means of communication in the process of education and social media as a tool enabling students’ revision and testing of study materials. This kind of research corresponds to the increased need to develop desired self-study skills in students, especially in the context of Covid19 experience. The first studies, which were conducted in 2014 and 2019, are based on the identical set of examined social media and fit the comparison enabling to define the trend in students’ satisfaction with social media for study purposes. The third study discussed in this paper was run during winter semester of 2021. The set of examined social media in the questionnaire was adapted to reflect the current social media scene. Experience with the abrupt shift to online platforms caused by global crisis has significantly affected the process of education exposing and endorsing the power of heutagogy. The situation prompted the need to emphasize the importance of autonomous education and ability to define educational needs and ways of achieving study goals. © 2022, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.