An Empirical Study on Awareness of various Applications of Social Media among Faculty Members

Management and Commerce

Internet is playing major role in creation, collection, management, segregation and dissemination of information. Social media as a part of it also plays an important role in creation and dissemination of knowledge, in today’s generation most of the teachers and students are aware about the social media and its different tools like wikis, Blogs, social networking sites, online document repositories, image and video sharing sites, presentation sharing sites, text and PDF sharing sites, video conferencing and social bookmarking which are considered as the mode of transmission of knowledge. The rapid acceptance and use of social media in teaching and learning have transformed the way researchers communicate and disseminate information1,2 Social Media become a great platform for engaging, enriching & empowering all the stakeholders in education field. There is increasing interest among the researchers on social media as it acts as a platform for scholarly communication4 So, the researchers have selected the topic titled “An Empirical Study on Awareness of various Applications of Social Media among Faculty Members.”

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