Tuesday, November 13, 2012

The Role Of Social Media In Education

Author: Gagan Masoun
The Role Of Social Media In EducationSocial media has an influence on the field of education worldwide, as it improved communication among the students, teachers, and professors and everyone who wants to spread or gather information in this field. Schools, colleges and other educational institutions submit their advertisements on social media platforms.

Educational programs, changes and other news are shared though social media tools. Everyone is allowed to have an access to the information about educational changes and innovations.

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You often meet on Facebook information about some academic program which is interest of you. The remarkable advantage of social media is that, that you can not only gather information about some news, but you can find out what people think about it, whether the program has a good reputation or not. For instance, you have found information about the holding conference in the field of your future career. Before you decide to apply for the program you can look at people comments about that. Someone may have already participated in such conference and doesn't recommend you to apply for. Thus you can explicitly inform about the program of your interest and easily determine whether it is worth or not to participate in it. To summarize social media platforms can inform every step of the education process.

Prime Benefit Of Social Media

The further benefit of Social Media for education is that, students are given an opportunity to communicate with their professors easily. Many professors have their account of face-book, and in case of some question for example during the preparation for the coming exam you can easily contact them. Usually college administration does give student’s professor’s contact information. Thus social media allows faculty to form powerful connections and reach new audiences that otherwise couldn't be accessed. Faculties are permitted to be actively involved in educational industry.

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Social Media For Academic Research

Social media can be greatly used for an academic research. Because on social media platforms you can better collect information for your research and to understand which issues are important in respect of your research? Besides you can meet other academics that are interested in the issue of your research.  But the most important advantage of social media while working for research, is that social media is a good tool to inform others about your research and to build reputation easily. You can receive feedback during research and it helps you to polish your research. Feedbacks work faster and affectively.

Social networking platforms are perfect dais for the students to research about anything throughout the life. Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and other popular social networking sites helps you to find out, what trend are coming up and down, so you are given information about latest trends and contemporary challenges.

Social media allows creating some academic circles, where you can share news in educational field, your work and research. Therefore you can expand your audience. Social networking gives an opportunity to renovate information and works which is laid in archives on university websites. 

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Author - is the owner of Blogs Daddy Blog. Gagan lives in India, has been blogging since 2010 and writing Blogs Daddy Blog since 2011.You can follow him on twitter @BlogsDaddyYou can also follow him on Google+.

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