Vilhelmina Vaičiūnienė

Purpose—the focus of this article is the role of social media in adult education and their impact on adult students in regards to their educational needs and specific personal situations within the frame of the learning partnership project. The Grundtvig learning partnership project “Institutional Strategies Targeting the Uptake of Social Networking in Adult Education (ISTUS) is an international partnership that includes partners from 7 EU countries. The aim of the research presented in this paper is to define cases of the uptake of technologies and applications by MRU students; thus, the objectives of the research are 1) to review
literature pertaining to the field of social media in adult education context and 2) to analyse the respondents’ insights as regards learning/teaching practices, resources, and facilities that ffect their learning in relation to social networking and media use (taking into consideration both personal and educational perspectives).

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