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Item THE ROLE OF USING MOBILE SOCIAL MEDIA LEARNING IN LIBYAN HIGHER EDUCATION(2017-05-02) Alhadad, Salha; Ertürk, Korhan LeventThe use of social media (e.g., Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Google+) by smartphones and the using of mobile learning applications in education increased day by day, and this reflects the importance of information and communication technologies ICT and its active role in the development of methods and tools of education, and enhance learning among students as well as promote active learning for them, where they have become the most important technology education tools. Mobile apps and the use of social media created opportunities for interaction and collaboration among students, as well as allowed students to engage in creating content and communication by using social media, Web 2.0 tools and mobile web 2.0. In this quantitative study was employed utilizing survey method to presents a portion of the findings on students' perceptions of learning with mobile devices and the role of social media in Libyan higher education. Data were collected through two surveys. In this study was designed mobile learning application based on the results of the surveys, to introduce the concept of Mobile social media learning to the Libyan Higher Education to develop its tools and old methods. The initial experimental results are very positive and this reflects the importance of the mobile applications and social media in developing and increasing the educational performance of students.