SOCIAL NETWORKS IN SUPPORTING EDUCATION

Abstract

Information technologies have exhibited great progress. Not just too far back, when we consider the last 25-30 year period, in terms of comparison of previous and modern communication tools, inconceivable progress can be observed. Type and variety of inter-personal communication have displayed continuous advancement in this new era introduced by technology. Whereas new emerging communication forms remove the distances among people, they bring up new dimensions to interpersonal information exchange at the same time. Such an extensive usage of internet impels educators toutilize from social networksmore than ever. By forming various socialgroups in these networks,information share and communication within groups intensifies. Social Network Websites (SNW) which facilitate cooperation among users andenable them to form communities are products of Web 2.0 technologies (Balcikanli, 2010). As result of enhanced communication between teacher and student throughestablished SNWs, education process can be maintained more effectively.

Keywords: Social Network, Education, The Education System.

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