According to the following survey how social networks is being in India form last 3 years
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Higher Education
Prasad Enagandula, Dr.A.Ramakrishna Prasad
Abstract—the main purpose of this paper is to find out place of Social Networking tools in INDIAN higher education. The growth of social networking tools including Face Book, Twitter, LinkedIn, MySpace and Blogs are raised in almost top Universities, Colleges and a few in INDIA. According to the recent survey conducted by Mashable Social media on March 30, 2012, Online Networking tools are used by top Universities in the world like Harvard University, University of Pennsylvania, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Michigan, Stanford University and University of California. For example Harvard — which has more than 1.6 million on Face book and 107,000 Twitter users. All these University representatives agree that social networking tool is a great resource to engage with the student community. W ith this information author wants to integrate online networking tools with advanced technology to accommodate the student needs and to get practice not only in the University/College hours.Author demonstrates, via the example given, how assessment structures and strategies are the most effective focus when attempting to create the pedagogical affordances that might lead to collaborative learning and to improve results better.
Index Terms— Social Networking tools, Face Book, You Tube EDU, Khans Academy, Geogebra, Google Docs, Blogs and LearnersTv
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1 INTRODUCTION
HIS Social networking tools or Social Media is an online cost free platform, allows us for online conversations and content sharing social networks is an online tool that allow for social interaction between members. Social networks tools are changing the way that students and faculty communicate, share ideas, and build networks. the interest in social networks is quickly increasing, and as with many other technologies, the educational community is looking to harness the potential of these resources to improve teaching and learning. while social networks is popular, educators need to better understand how to use it to improve student learning, while being mindful of privacy concerns. Though they are using online tools but they don’t know how they utilize for
their education
Apart from this, the Indian higher education continues to suffer from three fundamental challenges: access, equity and quality. we explore them briefly:
While India’s higher education system is the world third largest in terms of enrollment, next only to china and the use, its ger-currently at 13.8%-significantly lags the world average
at 26%.
The main objective came into mind because according to the recent 2012/13 QS World University Rankings, No Indian University including IITs and IIMs is placed in world's top 200 university ranking.It is clear students from the World universities are using networking tools widely and in India also using (below Fig 1.1) with this,
The students of 21st centaury generations are internet generations they use the networks differently, they network differently and they learn differently it was necessary to change the traditional lecture approach to better use the various social networks tools to meet students’ needs and expectations. These needs include increased access to the instructor and fellow students as well as course-related information
Social networks preference and adoption in INDIA:
According to the following survey how social networks is being in India form last 3 years
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Dr.A.Ramakrishna Prasad is Professor of mathematics and working as Director of Univerirsity Industrial and Intaraction Cell(UIIC) at JNTU,Hyderbad ,Andhra Pradesh,INDIA Mobile- 08008103815. E-mail: prof.prasadark@gmail.com
(Fig 1.1)21 Sep 2012: survey of social networks in advancement
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What people generally do on social networking services?
a) Connecting with existing networks free of cost , making and developing friendships/contacts
b) Rrepresent themselves online and create and develop an online presence
c) Uploading your own content an publishing d) Adding and sharing third-party content
e) Posting messages and videos – public and private
1) YouTube EDU-educational Vedio lecture
2) Google Docs - collaboration suite (incl Google forms)
3) khan academy-Basic Educational Technology
4) (edu)glogster - interactive poster tool
5) edmodo - edu social networking site
6) voicethread - collaborative slideshows
7) Animoto - videos from images
8) Google earth - virtual globe
9) voki- speaking avatar creator
10) Geogebra - maths software for colleges
11) Wallwisher - online notice board
12) Storybird - collaborative storytelling
13) quizlet - flash card and study games website
14) Teacher Tube - edu video sharing site
15) google docs - collaboration suite (incl google forms)
16) flickr - photo sharing site
17) learnerstv
1. Face Book
Facebook is the world’s largest social networking tool
.Facebook, enables its users to present themselves in an online profile, accumulate "friends" who can post comments on each other's pages, and view each other's profiles. Facebook members can also join virtual groups based on common interests, see what classes they have in common, and learn each others' hobbies, interests, musical tastes, and relationship status through the profiles.
“With the help of this advantage we have cteated a group at that the students they can address the issue and cooresponding meteriel address they so that they can go through for better discussion.
Say for example after logged into the facebook if we serch for CSIR,you will get more relavent meterialabout CSIR .Its a national Eligibility Test exam In India to do research in
various Science subject.At we will post the questions , share
doubts and collect study material available.”
You Tube created two programs to help colleges and teachers utilize You Tube EDU most effectively: YouTube for colleges and You Tube for teachers.
1. You Tube for Teachers provides tips & tricks for bringing You Tube into the classroom and organizes You Tube EDU videos to align with common core subjects.
2. You Tube for Colleges allows colleges to access all of
the You Tube EDU content while limiting access to non-educational content.
“With the help of YouTube EDU we can see the vedio lectures from diffetent universities, As a mathematics lectures I use to give the students the cooresponding link address so that apart from the college they can learn understand the concept with this tool”.
3. Google Docs
Google Docs is the very interesting tools .It allows us toCreate and shares your work online .create, share, and collaborate on the web with documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and more.Documents can be saved automatically,
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We have been created many course related documants with this Google Docs and upoloaded many course relevant graphs, have shared with student mail id provided not to edit option,we have published on he web also using Blogs”
4. Khan Academy
According to Wiki, Khan Academy is a non-profit educational organization and a website created in 2006 by Bangladeshi- American educator Salman Khan, a graduate of MIT and Harvard Business School. With the stated mission of "providing a high quality education to anyone, anywhere", the website supplies a free online collection of more than 3,500 micro lectures via video tutorials stored on YouTube teaching mathematcs, history, healthcare an d medicine, finance, physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy, eco nomics, cosmology, organic chemistry, American civics, art history, macroeconomics,microeconomics, and computer science
“Usally we ask the students go through this network tool to
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get better understanding basics of the topic”
5. Geogebra
Mchael Borcherds, lead developer of GeoGebra, It is a free mathematics software for learning and teaching, It contains graphs, algebrs,clculus and spreadsheets .This we can use from School students to university students
It gives clear pictorial representation of any kind of function
with animated effects
“With the help of this geogebra we mainly consentrating on vector calculus if we take as a subject wich we cannot discuss
3D graphs all on the board , we work on a perticular problem, we generate the 3Dgraph and we publish on the web (using Blogs)so that they can learn analyzie problem.”
6. Blogs
A blog is a discussion or informational site .It consisting of discrete entries typically displayed in reverse order the most recent post appears first. A blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, Web pages, and other media related to its topic. The ability of readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important contribution to the popularity of many blogs.
“I used the truth above, we have created a blog with a little bitof HTML code and Google Docsnamed pmat07.blogspot.in with the help of this we are posting lecture notes, assighnments, any other information relavent to their subject.”
7. LearnersTV
This Learnerstv offers the user to downloade Video lectures, Audio lectures,Live Online Tests,etc with FREE of cost in the fields of Biology, Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Computer Science, Engineering, Medicine, Management and Accounting, Dentistry, Nursing, Psychology, History, Language Training, Literature, Law, Economics, Philosophy,Astronomy, Political Science .This Tv provides free video and audio lectures of whole courses conducted by faculty from reputed universities around the world.It also provides online test and give feedback instantly with explaination
As a lecturer in an engineering college we personally working in collaboration environment, in order to prepare students, academia has to follow suit in its learning methods. in a world
of digital information and continual information exchange,
projects are now not only marked based on content, but group dynamics and teamwork. to facilitate this concept in education, tools including Google docs, Skype, social networks and wikis are implemented our institution.
we were prepared a blog named pmat07.blogspot.in; in this blog we post students lecture notes, assignment, exam schedule with the help of Google docs and html code and keep monitoring their responses in class .in our institution we were implemented audio and video class with one hour /per week
.with the help of YouTube EDU we download corresponding lecture video and we play it. After a video we provide web link say for example mathematics lecture http://www.youtube.com/education?category=university/math ematics)
Here is a practical example in which we observed 20 of the students with the help of the Networking sites explained above, we have conducted and Implemented on our own students for a test
X-Student Marks Before online Networking Tools
Y-Student marks after online Networking Tools
Here we wish to find Correlation between Used Non
Technology and Technology marks
Let x= Student Marks Before online Networking Tools
Let y=Student marks after online Networking Tools
x | Y |
8 | 10 |
7 | 9 |
8 | 10 |
9 | 10 |
5 | 8 |
4 | 7 |
6 | 9 |
7 | 8 |
2 | 6 |
4 | 7 |
5 | 8 |
6 | 9 |
7 | 10 |
5 | 7 |
3 | 8 |
8 | 10 |
6 | 9 |
4 | 7 |
5 | 8 |
9 | 10 |
Let n = number of students
From the Table 1.2(below) we can find
∑x==118
∑y=170
∑xy=1039
∑x2=770
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∑y2=1476
n=20(number of students observed)
Then the Correlation between these two variables ’r ’ is given by
n ∑(xy) − (∑ x)(∑ y)
=
j{(n ∑ x2 − (∑ x)2 } (n ∑ y2 − (∑ y)2 }
r = 20(1039)-118(170)
j{20(770)-(118)2 } j20(1476)-((170 2 }
r = 720
j{1476} √620
∴ r = 0.7526 >0
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(Table 1.2)
Finally we conclude that by the definition of correlation we must have a positive variation between x and y using networking nd online tools.
Social Networks goes not only allows students to start networking for their future, but have access to a variety of information for their education. i am a huge supporter and encourager of social networks in the classroom not only has it helped me through my high school and college career, but my social life. i think students entering the workforce to can not
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