Social media tools allow students to share information & build a sense of community. Social media is a clear booster of education among students who find visually ingrained programs more useful over the conventional teaching methodologies.
To graduates, having a college degree was the essential tool for career advancement. Using Web development skills & social media expertise developed in their teens or younger, these Web-connected social networkers are focusing their energies on online smarts rather than their grades. The interactive nature of online media helps to exchange not only study material but also share study experience to voice their opinions & bring change the existent culture of physical classes.
Introduction to E-learning has made the ways to pick & learn convenient & far more worthwhile. It’s not the load of books you can have carried but the impact it leaves after finishing. Sharing is an unavoidable component of E-learning which magnifies the results. Enabling students to share resources & engage in discussions is just so essential here. Social media tools foster student teacher relationships, personally & professionally. Social media’s presence in the realm of online education as proclaimed by professors of both online & in-person classes are more open to incorporating social media into class material.
The tools remain a natural way for students to communicate given their prevalence today. Students create their own blogs & then post a paragraph or two each week on assigned topics. Students comment on their classmates’ work & give each other feedback, creating a kind of “conversation in cyberspace,”
The social media platforms can be easily set up by faculty & students to reinforce interactivity & user generated content that is not possible in course management systems. Education is changing & social media is presenting a world of opportunity to improve learning outcomes.
Models of education have evolved over decades, just in time to collide with modern methods in which communication, interaction, student engagement & active learning are of critical importance. Social networking sites bring transparency to online education.
To attract & retain the typical college-age demographic, as well as the larger population of adult learners in search of relevant & engaging educational content, the next generation of online education must be characterized by courses that build in the social, real-time information capturing components that have made the web such a dynamic medium for sharing information & knowledge. The wonders of the digital age have successfully kept us current on the disaster in real-time.
The web, as a real-time medium, is begging us to build innovative courses that can be used for the rapid delivery of education designed in a way that integrates current news, information, insights & research about topics like the oil spill & thousands of other current issues.
“Social media definitely has a place in education”.
-Smita Dutta
iMET Global
iMET Academy 
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