• DocumentCode
    3052512
  • Title

    Social networks´ role in online education

  • Author

    Varol, Asaf ; Ahmed, Nova

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Software Eng., Firat Univ., Elazg, Turkey
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    23-25 Oct. 2013
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    4
  • Abstract
    Since students of online education do not meet face to face in a classroom environment, students get engaged to the classes via third party content or learning management tools. It is evident that young people spend most of their time on Social Networking websites when they are connected to internet. These sites provide free of speech environment without any restrictions. Moreover, the research in this area points out that the students are being more social when they use one of these Social Networking websites. Based on this findings, one can say using Social Networking in online education may provide an active cyber classroom environment with positive learning outcomes. Therefore, this paper is focusing on the role of Social Networking websites affect on student betrothal in online education.
  • Keywords
    computer aided instruction; distance learning; social networking (online); active cyber classroom environment; online education; positive learning outcomes; social networks Websites; Collaborative work; Communities; Educational institutions; Electronic mail; Fellows; Social network services; Distance Learning; Online Education; Social Networking;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Application of Information and Communication Technologies (AICT), 2013 7th International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Baku
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-6419-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICAICT.2013.6722696
  • Filename
    6722696