Social Media Tools on the Eve of E-Learning 3.0

Abstract

In the present paper we ll explore how social media tools provide an opportunity for new developments of the e-Learning in the context of managing personal knowledge There will be a discussion how social media tools provide a possibility for helping knowledge workers and students to gather organize and manage their personal information as a part of the e-learning process At the centre of this social software driven approach to e-learning environments are the challenges of personalization and collaboration We ll share concepts of how organizations are using social media for e-Learning and believe that integration of these tools into traditional e-Learning is probably not a choice but inevitability Students Survey of use of web technologies and social networking tools is presented Newly developed framework for semantic blogging capable of organizing results relevant to user requirements is implemented at Varna Free University VFU to provide more effective navigation and search