Students’ social networks in Learning- Innovation Process: Systematic Review of Scientific Articles

The purpose of paper was to investigate the role of social networks in students’ learning-innovation process in related scientific articles. To achieve this goal, systematic review method was used, conducted a search for articles, as well as sysnthesis, and review the findings based on the theoretical concept of “learning-innovation network”. The research population is about a collection of scientific articles that were published through 2006-2017 which were slected by purposeful and available sampling. The data were synthesised, categorized and investigated by using the qualitative categorization method. The results indicated a lack of deep attention to various characteristics and dynamics of social networks in learning-innovation process of articles which were under study. Some of the influential functions of students’ relation networks had been raised, but on the contrary, there were also contradictory findings that requiers deeper reflection on students’ networks toward value creation.