Social media networks and pedagogy at the University of Jordan Huda Karajeh 1 & Mahmoud Maqableh 2 & Lama Rajab 1 & Hiba Mohammad 1 & Tahani Khatib 1 & Nabeel Al-Qirim 3 & Ali Tarhini 4 Received: 22 August 2017 /Accepted: 15 March 2018 /Published online: 26 March 2018 # Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2018, corrected publication August/2018 Abstract This study examined impact of a social media networks course on student use of SNSs performance. Moreover, it examined the associations among course design, course materials, learning experiences and a social media networks course. Survey instrument is used to examine the relationships in the proposed model. A total of 380 questionnaires have been collected from students at the University of Jordan Educ Inf Technol (2018) 23:2073–2090 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10639-018-9704-8 * Nabeel Al-Qirim nalqirim@uaeu.ac.ae Huda Karajeh h.karajeh@ju.edu.jo Mahmoud Maqableh maqableh@ju.edu.jo Lama Rajab lama.rajab@ju.edu.jo Hiba Mohammad h.khadrawi@ju.edu.jo Tahani Khatib tahani.khatib@ju.edu.jo Ali Tarhini ali.tarhini@hotmail.co.uk 1 Department of Computer Information Systems, King Abdullah II School for Information Technology, The University of Jordan, Amman 11942, Jordan 2 Department of Management Information Systems, Faculty of Business, The University of Jordan, Amman 11942, Jordan 3 College of Information Technology, United Arab Emirates University, Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates 4 Department of Information Systems, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman