E-Learning is the need of the hour. In the rapid changing world e- learning can be made much effective and attractive with the inclusion of Social media tools in it.

Studies by various researches are emerging to prove the effectiveness of social media in distance learning. For example, recent studies have disclosed that the exposure to an instructor via social networking enhances the motivation level of the entire class and thus results in the betterment of the environment of the classroom as a whole. This in turn is obviously reflective with positive changes in the performance of the students.

The most popular and the most massive of the social networks namely MySpace and Facebook have been known to have been the foremost contributors in this regard. This is owing to the reason that even the most ‘technology-unfamiliar’ of the people (mostly those living in remote locations where awareness to computing sciences are not very common) have heard of these ever famous social networks. Thanks to media coverage internet environments are recognized and understood even where they do not exist.

Specifically speaking, these social media tools are vast domains within themselves and possess diverse characters that fit specific class needs readily.

TWITTER and E-Learning

Twitter has been a happening place and is preferred over Facebook by serious professionals the latter being more recently thought of as an entertaining platform. A number of e-learning hashtags are active on twitter.

With the metroblogging arena of Twitter and E-learning both on the go the combination is sure to prove for knowledge seeking individuals who are social media fanatics as well!