Implementation Of Social Media Learning In Classroom. How Effective?

Online learning powers collaborative learning in a preferred environment to the students by harnessing the power of social networking.

Study says Facebook and other networking sites including Twitter and Instagram consume a good 50 minutes of your precious time each day.
If this stat bewilders you then don't forget there are over 1.65 billion monthly active Facebook users all over the world and at least five pages are being created every second on Facebook. No wonder these social networking websites are making a wave to connect people and engage them in commenting, sharing or liking.

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Online learning is capitalizing this power of social networking sites and directing it to enhance learners engagement in studies. And advanced technology remains, as it started suffusing with everything in our life, the key igniter of upgrading the framework of our educational ecosystem.

The necessity of transforming social networking sites to social interactive learning sites depends on the fact that learning in traditional institutes are becoming less 'active'. And active, by every means, refers to a learning that imparts career-oriented programmes, passes on hands-on experience and results in a good job.

Learning by sharing is cool! So much so that even a non-participating student is being engaged in asking, answering and sharing his thoughts virtually in front of others in social media sites. The reason is that the digital natives of this decade inherits the power to acclimatise with technology-enables learning mode seamlessly.

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Online education vouches for learning by collaborating with other students and educators as well. This mode of learning empowers students to show efficiency by helping others. And the opportunity to become a top contributor by answering questions, solving problems and creating and sharing study resources is undoubtedly the key factor to enhance the engagement of studies among the students.

Dr. Richard J. Light of Harvard University's School of Education is up for the implementation of online social learning, he says, “This group learning format appeals to younger, socially conscious learners and is built around the notion that many minds are better than one.”

Ease of accessibility is another salient feature of learning through social networking websites. A learner can carry his study resources along with him, and can opt for learning whenever he wants. Social networking sites have the attributes of online discussions boards which serves the purpose of learning while working due its flexible nature. One can literally ask questions related to web development in Arts class, such is the magnanimity of collaborative learning.

Now the million dollar question – How effective it can be to introduce social media learning in classroom to cater knowledge?

Utterly good, if learners manage to leverage the power of social media to acquire knowledge. Online learning backs up social, mobile and peer-to-peer learning. And the implementation of social medial learning in classroom will be considered as an essential mode of obtaining knowledge if the learners can manage to spend a good 30 minutes of their daily share of using networking sites as a platform to study and share.

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Online Learning Is A New Concept To Many US Learners Who Prefer To Another Learning Platform

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There are hundred and thousands of students who think online learning is the tool that can help them to gain knowledge. That's why the number of e-learners is growing every year. Online IT diploma courses and MBA programmes are the most preferred among the e-learning courses. But there are many who still have no clue about online learning. In many places distance learning exist but have no online attached to it. Though, it's believed that sooner or later institutes having the postal system of distance learning will conjoin with e-learning. Although many have access to the internet and mobile devices yet they are unaware of the online education. Read on.

Strange about online education?

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IT is the career that offers bright career. Looking to enter into the same profession students from different nationalities enrol to online information technology courses because of its incredible benefits. But in the US, it seems many yet to know about it. The Pew Research Centre has done the survey on Personal Education and Technology with 3000 American adults. According to the report, 74 percent of the US learners termed them as Personal Learners and 36 percent coined them as Professionals Learners. The majority of the students preferred libraries, high schools, worship places ignoring the web. The report reflected that US learners were unknown to the idea of online learning including Massive Open Online Course (MOOC). It seemed that they are aloof to the concept of the MOOC and modern education i.e web learning. Here check at out some other similar other online courses that are also helping the students.

The digital gap

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It seems that there is the digital divide. Compare to the rich, people from low-income group are less known to the online education. So when from the stable background is taking his/her first step of learning IT skills with online IT diploma courses, students from poor financial background have zero access to web education.

According to one report author of Pew Research Centre's John Horrigan,

“It becomes a bit of a double whammy for less-educated Americans. They’re less attuned to seeking out educational opportunities than other segments [of the population], and less skilled at using new technologies that might help them overcome those gaps.”

Hence, to make sure that no digital divide persist we need to make sure everyone have equal access to technology to receive education via online. So IT career aspirants can take online information technology courses and prepare for the next level.

What next?

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All the stakeholders of the education including the government have to undertake measure so that digital inequality ends and online learning is made available to all. There should be awareness programme or workshop on online learning. Here, learners should be briefed regarding the merits of online education and scopes earned through it. Online education has already been termed as the future of learning. Hence, ignoring it would mean neglecting the future. So, put future of the learners at risk when they can make most from e-learning. On the other hand, learners also will have to make sure that they remain committed to the new form of learning rather bearing casual approach towards web learning.

How unfamiliarity to online learning can affect students in future? Comment below to share your opinion and insight.

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