•This is an empirical study with data from 94 Spanish students from a Management course.•Traditional education technologies enable instructors to engage students.•Student engagement increases learning performance.•Learning performance leads to a greater student satisfaction.•Social media applications amplify the above relationships. Understanding how information technology (IT) resources create value in Management education requires new and more powerful theories. This research examines the impact of IT resources on Management education using the case method. We theorize that traditional education technologies enable instructors to engage students to increase learning performance, which in turn leads to greater student satisfaction, and that social media applications can amplify these relationships. The empirical analysis, partial least squares path modeling performed on survey and secondary data from 94 Spanish students in a Management course, supports our theory.