• Community communications go beyond blogs and social media shares; how does a PLN help and hinder the development of thoughts and ideas in education discourse?

Research has shown that social media can help students learn. Through a variety of different social platforms, teachers can work with students to integrate social media into their daily instruction to make lessons more interesting and engaging and to increase student engagement. Social networking sites are a great tool when it comes to interacting with students because it is what they are most familiar with.
Social media is also suitable for research work and can provide sufficient survey groups. Students can use polls, surveys, or even post a simple question to get people’s opinions on a particular topic.
Social media extends faculty office hours and facilitates interaction between faculty and students after class. For students who do not have the opportunity or are too shy to ask their questions in a public classroom, social media provides a platform for them to ask their confusion in relative privacy.

• How do educators create discourse?

Educators can post free webinars on different social media platforms and give students the opportunity to learn something new through these seminars. Often, many people will promote their educational websites on social media. You have the opportunity to learn a lot. So, regardless of your location and educational background, you can educate yourself for less or even no cost.

• What is the role of social media in education?

Social media will play an increasingly important role in higher education. It is like a popular teaching tool for educators, and with the aid of PLN, the teaching and learning process often becomes easy and efficient.

• What are some problems with social media communications in education settings?

Through online education, knowledge is not explained as easily as in face-to-face lectures, and students’ confusing questions are often not answered the first time because of the delay and various factors of the Internet. Although social media education easily overcomes the obstacle of distance, it also spends more time on student-educator communication.