The relevance of social network tools using in educational process

Tatiana Zbritska
PhD in Economics, Associate Professor, Personnel Management and Labor Economics Department, Odessa National Economic University, Ukraine, e-mail: s.t.p._@ukr.net, ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3558-1795

Anastasiia Tabanova
Lecturer of Personnel Management and Labor Economics Department, Odessa National Economic University, Ukraine, e-mail: atabanova@ukr.net, ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3025-3346

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Zbritska, T., Tabanova, A. (2018). The relevance of social network tools using in educational process. Ed.: M. Zveryakov (ed.-in-ch.) and others [Aktualnist vykorystannia instrumentiv sotsialnykh merezh v osvitnomu protsesi; za red.: М. I. Zvieriakova (gol. red.) ta in.], Socio-economic research bulletin; Vìsnik socìal’no-ekonomìčnih doslìdžen’ (ISSN 2313-4569), Odessa National Economic University, Odessa, No. 3 (67), pp. 117‒130.

Abstract

The article considers the characteristic properties of social networks. The existing of social networks and their possibilities (main advantages and problems) in terms of using in the educational process are analyzed. The purpose of article is to investigate the teachers and students possibility and readiness to using of social networks in educational process to ensure more effective collaboration in the interactive mode. The possibilities and readiness of students and teachers of Odessa National Economic University (ONEU) to use social networks in the educational process are analyzed. The SWOT-analysis on social networks attraction in the ONEU educational process is given. The advantages and limitations of IT-technologies in the educational process for students and teacher are considered. The tools of social networks application and examples of their using in educational process are offered. An important factor, which encumbering of social networking tools implementation in educational process are the unavailability of this process to attract modern teaching aids, because in the study, the authors concluded that there is a lack of scientifically grounded guidelines, time-consuming norms and teacher’s remuneration. These problems can be solved by conditions creating for advanced of teachers training in the information and communication technologies sphere, namely: the material and moral teachers incentives, who are actively using a new technologies and developing of effective methods for social networks applying in the university educational space. Social networks are not main means of learning, but their opportunities to educational problems solving is underestimated by the professional community today.

Keywords

educational process; IT-technologies; social networks; students and professors; information and communication technologies; remote-interactive learning.

JEL classification: I210; DOI: https://doi.org/10.33987/vsed.3(67).2018.117-130

UD classification: 378:004.738.5

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