This article by Daniel George and Cheryl Dellasega, explains the results of their project which aimed to integrate social media tools into the curriculum of two electives offered to 4th year students at Penn State College. The authors carried out their project by using a large variety of social media, including Twitter, YouTube and Flickr .The results of their project were that students do in fact highly favour learning through social media and, interestingly named a few strengths and weaknesses named on previous blogs (ie. concerns about privacy and lack of facility with technology and real time communication , connecting with medical experts and collaborative opportunities). The authors concluded that social media can bring about many learning opportunities however educational facilities must be willing to put forth the man power and resources to integrate social media into their curriculum.
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