Emerging Role of Social Media In Education

Abstract

Social network tools afford students and institutions with multiple opportunities to improve learning methods. Through these networks, you can incorporate social media plugins that enable sharing and interaction. Students can benefit from online tutorials through YouTube, online courses delivered by universities abroad through Skype and a wide array of resources that are shared through social networks. In this article the researcher highlights the importance of social networking sites their use in education for teachers as well as for students. The world has become a global village now students can learn through any mode which is available to them according to their needs. The access to learning is no more difficult. Various social media sites such as facebook, Instagram, and whatsapp is helping students and teachers connected with each other. Apart from this various online learning LMS like swayam, Coursera, Edex , Udemy etc are proving boon to students .