Abstract
Social networking is becoming a more powerful tool for students for communication, information sharing, and discussions. This paper presents a study, based on a survey questionnaire, which aims to investigate to what extent and for what purposes teachers from different countries from all over the world use social networking in their teaching practice. The attitude towards the use of social networking in higher education in general is examined. The study is intended to seek dependences between the answers related to the above issues and different teachers' characteristics, on the point of view if the teachers are well informed about social networking sites, or whether they participate in interest groups or research related to social networking and higher education. Finally, summarized results of the survey are presented, depending on the continent where the countries of the participants are located.
Highlights
Students in the 21st century are growing up constantly connected to the world around them through smartphones, tablets, and computers
The teachers who participate in groups interested in the use of social networking for educational purposes are more positive and actively use social networks in their teaching practice
The survey results show that teachers do not use social networking for educational purposes in their teaching practice today
Summary
Students in the 21st century (referred to as the digital generation, digital natives) are growing up constantly connected to the world around them through smartphones, tablets, and computers. Marc Prensky (Prensky, 2001) defines the term “digital native” and applies it to a new group of students enrolling in educational establishments referring to the young generation as “native speakers” of the digital language of computers, videos, video games, social media and other sites on the internet. Today social networking as a powerful tool for users for communication, information sharing and discussions on various topics responds to those needs. The wide academic and research interest in the use of social networking for educational purposes in higher education is the natural result of constantly growing popularity of social networking according to a worldwide survey, approximately 2 billion internet users are using social networks today (Statista’2018)
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