Use of online networking in education

1. Educational Networking
RC Gupta
MD (Bio)
Jaipur, India

2. • What is educational networking?
• What are the avenues for growth
in education?
• How can we use networking for
growth in education?
What and how?

3. • Curricular innovations
• Newer teaching-learning methods
• Improvement in assessment methods
• Use of technology in education
• Training and updating teachers
• Inter-institutional collaboration
Avenues for Growth in Education

4. Networking means creation of inter-
connected or interdependent groups
or systems for common benefit of all
the members of the group or system
Networking

5. To understand educational networking,
we can take “Community of Practice”
as an example
Educational networking

6. Community of Practice
• A “community of practice” is a group of
people who share a craft or a profession
• They learn to do their job better by
working together and interacting regularly
• This underlines the importance of group
learning
Lave J, Wenger E (1991). Situated Learning: Legitimate
Peripheral Participation. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press

7. A group
of people
with a common
occupation
A group
having common
goals
A group
that shares
experiences

8. Offline networking
The contact is
person to person
Almost outdated
Online networking
The contact is via
internet
Is the ‘in’ thing
Offline and Online Networking

9. Offline contact

10. The Online World

11. The evolution of communication

12. Face-to-
face and
letters
Face-to-
face and
telephone
Text
messages
and email
Texting
and social
media
Generation Gap - Aspirations and Communication
Aspiration
Mode of
commu-
nication

14. A digitally connected group of teachers,
students and other stakeholders with
similar interests, sharing resources,
experiences and expertise for achieving
common academic goals
Online Educational Network

15. Can You Identify these Social Media?

17. Some Online Social Media Sites
• Facebook
• YouTube
• Instagram
• Twitter
• WhatsApp
• Google Plus
• Tumblr
• Snapchat
• LinkedIn
• Line
• Viber
• Skype
• Pinterest
• Dropbox
• Spotify
• Behance
• Reddit
• Telegram

18. • Our fellow teachers and learners are
already on social media
• The choice now is not whether we use
social media or not
• The choice is whether we use social
media well or not
Why should we use social media
for educational networking?

19. ↑
Impact
Time →

20. Modern Alphabet for Children of Digital Age

21. Creating an
Educational Network
• Identify the area of interest
• Select members
• Select media platform
• Decide upon the material to share for
expansion/creation of knowledge

22. Membership and Reach
• Departmental
• Inter-departmental
• Inter-institutional
• Inter-national
• Inter-disciplinary

23. In a network, we can:
• Get resources from peers
• Share our resources with others
• Ask questions when in doubt
• Give answers when we have them
• Develop contacts for future

24. Members of the network can share their
best practices for mutual benefit

25. Some Global Content Sharing Sites
• SlideShare
• SlidesServe
• SlidePlayer
• PowerShow
• AuthorSTREAM
• Scribd

26. Using SlideShare
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27. To upload a file, click here

28. To select a file,
click here

30. Give a brief description
Choose category

31. Choose privacy setting

32. Click Publish

34. Networks help to update
knowledge
Staying connected is staying
updated

35. Stay safe while using social media
• Privacy issues
• Hacking
• Identity theft
• Financial frauds
• Malware, spyware, ransomware etc

36. • Has benefits as well as risks
• Can engage teachers and learners
outside the traditional boundaries
• Can help discriminate facts from fiction
• Can help in professional growth
Social media networking:

37. If you want to go fast, go alone;
if you want to go far, go with
others
– an African proverb

38. • Educators no longer need to go alone
• They can communicate instantly and
constantly with experts by networking
• Effective networking can result in better
teaching and better learning