A STUDY ON RELEVANCE OF SOCIAL MEDIA AS AN EDUCATIONAL TOOL

Abstract

“Social media: an innovative education tool” were undertaken to study the relevance and importance of social media which is an in-thing among the educational sector. In an era, where the global is the word to define common platform for the people around the world to share and exchange their beliefs, culture, traditions, knowledge, views, etc. Today peoples, especially students uses social media a lot not only to stay connected with far away friends but also uses this as a tool for making fun and sharing their thoughts within the self created closed groups regarding education, society, sometimes politics also. This drastic change in the attitude of students provides a big platform for the educational institutes to provide the education using such substitute medium. This study explores the possibilities and effectiveness of providing education using social media as a platform.The study concludes that our education system needs change and social media should be widely utilized for the educational purposes. It is mainly used for the purpose of making presentations followed by assignment updates, better research, and connectivity.