With the creation of online courses that post-secondary students in university and college are able to take, this has pushed education to further places. Online classrooms have also allowed both teachers and students to communicate and share ideas and resources more efficiently. The following link gives a brief but in-depth insight into the benefits that social networking has in its integration with education today.
Instant messaging and online chat-rooms have also played a role towards shaping education as we see it today. Since education does not always take place within the classroom setting in this day and age, online classrooms have become a beneficial way to enhance education. The integration of chat-rooms and instant messaging systems through online classrooms allow students to communicate with one another and share thoughts and ideas to gain different insights towards other types of perspectives of a certain topic.
Podcasting has also shown to be a beneficial way for students to enhance their learning experiences. It has allowed students to be able to use different types of learning styles in order to learn about content, and has helped them to “learn lifelong learning skills through self-directed learning, co-learning and facilitated learning with teachers and [other] students” (Burbules and Thibert, par. 13). In addition, podcasts can be posted online for students to download for their own reference. The following YouTube video provides more information on the use of podcasting within the field of education.
Finally, the use of blogs have been expanded upon, with the use of information, pictures, podcasts, and links, these have been posted on blogs and can be used to elaborate on information in order to share with students to assist them in their learning of particular content.
As these are numerous ways of sharing and communicating information through networking, education has also already incorporated itself into sites such as Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter, and will begin to advance in the near future.
Written by Bertina Tan
A good example of social networking being incorporated into education would be post-secondary schools and their use of the cyber-world in order for both students and professors to extend communication to one another. Even so, students also communicate with one another through other social networking sites, putting sites such as Facebook to an advantage.
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This link extends towards the use of "social networking in higher education".