Compilation of REAL LIFE case-lets on the usage of social network in business management teaching in the sultanate of Oman

Joint Authors

Chakraborty, Manishankar
Husayni, Sayyid Sad Allah

Source

التعليم المفتوح : الدور، التحديات و الحلول : المنعقد في الفترة 25-27 نوفمبر 2013

Publisher

Arab Open University

Publication Date

2013-11-30

Country of Publication

Kuwait

No. of Pages

6

Main Subjects

Engineering & Technology Sciences (Multidisciplinary)
Educational Sciences

Topics

• Social networking Web sites
• Conferences
• Oman

English Abstract

Technological revolution has taken the world by storm.

All the spheres of human life are impacted by the presence of technology and it has become the major source of all round metamorphosis being witnessed globally.

The biggest revolution to have happened in the last two and a half decades has been the digital changes courtesy internet and allied technologies.

Social networking through social media platforms have squeezed the geographical constraints of the yesteryears and tools like Face-book, Twitter, My space, blogs, Wikis hitherto having mostly peripheral roles are taking center stage in the new era.

Education is one such domain which has realized the latent abilities of these tools to usher in new horizons in the teaching-learning area.

The proposed paper intends to present the personal experiences of the authors in using their own social media tools in the education of pupils, society and professionals with a multiplier effect.

The author’s experiences in dealing with face-book, twitter, blogs, wikis, apart from in-house elearning platforms like MOODLE are being presented in the form of small case-lets thereby providing a bird’s eye view of the same.

Data Type

Conference Papers

Record ID

BIM-436165

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