توضیحات :
This paper intends to highlight potential ways of utilizing social media for educational purposes. Social media in particular social websites have become a familiar trend especially among younger audiences. Information is spread rapidly through these websites which is an asset that can be taken advantage of in many ways. After a brief introduction about the emergence of social media, the ways in which social media is defined is then discussed. Social media utilization in knowledge management and knowledge sharing is then presented along with the various advantage and disadvantages in using social media websites. The current tendencies of adopting these websites in higher education institutions are then examined considering the appearance of modern learning methods. Organizations today are increasingly distributed and networked; making it more challenging to share knowledge therefore using social media has become more and more popular to increase efficiency within organizations which is discussed later in the paper. The final section of the paper is dedicated to proposing recommendations for the future.
