Reflection on the use of social networks, for educational purposes, in Higher Education

Abstract

The objective of this article is to characterize the use of social networks, for educational purposes, in the training of university professionals. In this regard, the article offers a foundation of the process of training university professionals mediated by ICT and its dynamics for the use of social networks for educational purposes. A causal diagnosis made in the context of “Universidad de Oriente” of Santiago de Cuba, allowed to characterize the current state of this process which allowed to reveal the theoretical - praxiological insufficiencies that are manifested in it that demand the need for its improvement in the plane didactic - methodological, with a view to meet the demands of university education in the technological era through which humanity is transiting.