Abstract
Learning theory describes how students receive, process, and retain knowledge during learning. Cognitive, emotional, and environmental influences, as well as prior experience, all play a part in how understanding, or a world view, is acquired or changed and knowledge and skills retained. Auto didacticism or self-education (also self-learning and self-teaching) is education without the guidance of masters (such as teachers and professors) or institutions. Generally, autodidacts are individuals who choose the subject they will study, their studying material, and the studying rhythm and time. Autodidacts may or may not have formal education, and their study may be either a complement or an alternative to formal education. Many notable contributions have been made by autodidacts. Before the twentieth century, only a small minority of people received an advanced academic education. As stated by Joseph Whitworth in his influential report on industry dated from 1853, literacy rates were higher in the United States. However, even in the U.S., most children were not completing high school. High school education was necessary to become a teacher. In modern times, a larger percentage of those completing high school also attended college, usually to pursue a professional degree, such as law or medicine, or a divinity degree. Collegiate teaching was based on the classics (Latin, philosophy, ancient history, theology) until the early nineteenth century. There were few if any institutions of higher learning offering studies in engineering or science before 1800. Institutions such as the Royal Society did much to promote scientific learning, including public lectures. In England, there were also itinerant lecturers offering their service, typically for a fee. Prior to the nineteenth century, there were many important inventors working as millwrights or mechanics who, typically, had received an elementary education and served an apprenticeship. Mechanics, instrument makers and surveyors had various mathematics training. James Watt was a surveyor and instrument maker and is described as being "largely self-educated". Watt, like some other autodidacts of the time, became a Fellow of the Royal Society and a member of the Lunar Society. In the eighteenth century these societies often gave public lectures and were instrumental in teaching chemistry and other sciences with industrial applications which were neglected by traditional universities. Academies also arose to provide scientific and technical training. Social Media has found uses and applications as academics for various services and functions. This assertion was to be determined among World Wide University in terms of what platforms, average number of posts, engagement in terms of like, share, comment of users, number of likes on the Social Media account, type of information disseminated on Social Media . The result shows a low use of Social Media among the sampled university in terms of number of Social Media accounts operated, number of posts, level of engagement in terms of like, share and comment to post from the university Social Media accounts. Also with a low number of likes for Social Media, the type of information disseminated is also very low. Universities do not even have any Social Media accounts. Recommendations were made as to how to improve on the use of Social Media platform, services that can be rendered on it, how to make it more engaging, and the type of information that should be sent with the frequency of posting messages.