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Social media or Web 2.0 based applications include online chat forums, wikis, blogs, social networking sites make knowledge sharing easy and unobtrusive for the individual. These type of tools facilitates communication, sharing information and online socialization.

Using Web 2.0, users may easily express or share their opinions, ‘think by writing’, seek others’ opinions and feedback and be connected with the others. Furthermore, multimedia production in form of audio (e.g. podcasting using mobile technology) or video (vodcasting, YouTube) capabilities continue to grow and offer new opportunities for teaching, learning and assessment.

Using social media, students may record discussions and upload them on the platform for further knowledge sharing, assessment, reflection and feedback from peers and professors. This contextual collaboration seamlessly integrates content sharing, communication channels and collaboration tools into a unified user experience that enables new levels of productivity.

Web 2.0 tools may shift control to the learner, through promoting learner agency, autonomy and engagement in social networks that straddle multiple real and virtual learning spaces independent of physical, geographic, institutional and organizational boundaries.