Social networking sites provide many educational benefits for students and teachers. They allow teachers to improve student engagement and collaboration while developing students' technology and communication skills. Research has shown social networking sites positively impact students' educational growth. Popular sites like Facebook, Wikipedia, and LinkedIn enable educators to share information and resources, communicate with others, and promote learning. Overall, social media plays an increasing role in connecting people and advancing education.

1. Educational benefits of social networking sites

2. • Today, technology provides a lot of
opportunities for education that can be
accessed by everyone around the globe. The
educational field has completely transformed
ever since the Internet and technology are
included in the equation.
• Using social networking sites, teachers can
able to improve the involvement of their
students in studies and education, improve
technological ability, provide a great sense of
collaboration in the classroom and make good
communication skills.

3. • The University of Minnesota had a research on
social networking sites like MySpace and
Facebook and found that the social networking
sites have a great impact for educational growth
for students in high school.
• Therefore, social networking websites are
considered as an ideal source that helps us to
widen our knowledge. Recent survey says that
millions of people accessing social networking
sites for their educational requirements. Thus,
the field of education has undergone a drastic
shift and hence gained a new dimension for the
past decade.

4. The following are the popular social networking websites that have
effective educational benefits:
• EDMODO: Edmodo is the largest social networking
website used mainly for education purposes. As per the
survey, more than 13 million people are using this
website effectively. Edmodo provides greater security for
all its users. If an institution is using this website, then
the institute will get a security code from this website.
Hence, the institute can share the code to the people
whomever it wants to access the website. This is how the
website provides greater security to its users. Edmodo
encourages other activities such as posting assignments,
conducting surveys and sharing images and videos.

5. ENGLISH BABY
 Teaching conversational English is the main
objective of the English Baby website. The
analysis showed that nearly 1.5 million people
across the globe are using this website. This
website is very famous among the Chinese
people still the website is also used by
Americans, Japanese, Indians, Egyptians, etc.
However, only the premium users get right to
access this website.

6. LIVEMOCHA
 Livemocha is a social networking website
used to teach various languages to the
website users. As per the analysis, nearly 1.2
million people around the world are using this
website. The website consists of a collection
of course material available in more than 38
different languages. The users of this website
can perform activities such as posting content
and reviewing content.

7. ACADAMIA EDU
 Acadmia.edu is a science-related website built
especially for scientists and the respective college
students. As per the study, more than 1.9 million
people are using the website all over the world. It is a
platform mainly for academic researchers and
aficionados to share research materials and research
papers to other website users. Using this website, the
users can able to share their research papers with
other users in the same field, have contact with experts
in the field and get their help in a research. The
website also shows the number of people accessed the
papers and their reviews to the users who post their
research papers.

8. EPERNICUS
 Epernicus is another social networking
website, focuses on social networking aspect,
built mainly for scientists and researchers.
Unlike Acadmia.edu, it doesn’t allow users to
share their research papers and materials. It
allows users to post questions and get suitable
answers from recognized experts. The users of
the website can participate on any topic
related to science and research and hence the
website is quite informative for its users.

9. COURSE CRACKER
Course Cracker is a network that enables
students, teachers and parents to connect with
each other resulting in the refinement of the
learning process. The main objective of this site is
to improve the educational experience of users
by using latest web applications and web tools.
This website allows the users to post their course
material, quizzes, assignments and other sources
related to education and also give them
permission to access the posted content.

10. THE SYNAPSE
This website mainly concentrates on biology
students, tutors and researchers all over the
globe. This website acts as a great source of the
latest happenings and development in biology,
generally built on the Ning platform.

11. THE MOLECULAR FORCES
o It is another website built on the Ning
platform, focuses on physics and chemistry
students, teachers and researchers. Teachers
can able to distribute their study materials
and learning approaches in this website. The
website also acts as a great platform for
sharing and asking questions about new ideas.

12. The following are the most popular social networking websites that promote
education:
• WIKIPEDIA: A popular social networking website that
consists of a great repository of informative articles,
generally used by millions of users every one hour.
When you see in the discussion board, you can find
many people sharing their views and opinions in a
forum based settings. Also, they ask questions,
review, modify, mention references, give feedbacks
and share their knowledge gained from the article.

13. FACEBOOK
Facebook is a famous social networking site that has
nearly a billion users all over the world. This website is
considered to be the best website for promoting
education. In this modern generation, you can find almost
every student has an account in Facebook. The Facebook
groups are formed for schools and classes and thus the
website allows both the teachers and students to share
their information, post queries and answers, set
reminders about upcoming events, etc. The eminent
Facebook groups that are available are Wikieducators , E-
Learning in developing and developed countries, Teaching
Critical Thinking and Active Learning.

14. LINKEDIN
LinkedIn is one of the largest websites created
mainly for business relationships and
networking. This website is used by nearly a
million of companies and professionals across
the globe. Not only LinkedIn educates its users,
but also provides advantageous benefits to
employers and job seekers. Like Facebook,
LinkedIn also has so many groups for educators.

15. How social networking sites assist
individual educators?
• Promotes creativity
• Enhances communication skills
• Develops collaboration and teamwork
• Provides access to information
• Increases awareness
• Develops social connection

16. By using social networking sites, students
get the following benefits:
 Improvement of communication skills
 Improvement of technology skills
 Increase in the exposure of diverse views
 Develop a positive image
 Increase the engagement of learning

17. By using social networking sites,
teachers get the following benefits:
• Collaborate with other staffs
• Exchange information and lesson plans
• Increase the access to resources
• Form a partnership with schools in
different states and countries
• Get feedback about school and events
• Communicate with parents effectively

18. • As it is easy to access and use Social networking websites
from anywhere in the world and at any time, they have gained
more popularity among people. Moreover, social media sites
provide a vast amount of information useful for educators and
thus make students learn dexterously discriminate between
what information is useful for them and what is not.
• Despite promoting education among students, social
networking sites also help them for successful employment.
Students who enter into the workforce can able to use social
networking sites to network and thus find employment too.
• Thus, social networking sites not only play a vital role in
connecting people but also play an escalating role in
education.