GOOGLE+: A BOOST TO E-LEARNING EDUCATION & TRAINING @ COVENANT UNIVERSITY
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Just as the advancement in Information Technology
(IT) continues to evolve and change rapidly over the
past few decades, the art of learning, acquiring and
dispersing knowledge and information have also
continued to evolve rapidly. These rapid innovations
and improvements in IT were designed with the aim
of boosting knowledge and education at just the click
of the button. Some of the most outstanding
innovations and inventions in the (IT) world, which
have influenced education and learning in this decade
are found in social networks such as Yahoo, Google,
Face book, twitter, You Tube, to mention but a few.
However, recent studies conducted in this regard
revealed that these current innovations and
advancements in IT have constituted grave challenges
to the knowledge and learning process.
The teachers / lecturers of this century, during the
process of seeking to transfer knowledge to their
student, are often faced with the dilemma of finding
how best to gainfully occupy the minds of their
students within and outside the class room
environment. The students who more often than not,
distracted by incoming messages, videos, picture of
friends, or simply text messages from friends via iphones,
laptops, i-pods, or even i-pads etc. The
respondent instantly cannot resist the urge to quickly
read and send back a reply via either of the means
mentioned here. Other students who log on to either
of the networks for a specific task are easily
distracted or carried away by say, a fresh
advertisement or alternate information which
dramatically catches the attention of the students.
Consequently, they are drawn and carried away by
the new piece of information that drastically - in most
cases - changes their trend of thought before they are
fully aware of the harm done by the distraction.
While applying the simple survey methods of
research, this paper shall examine the findings of an
ongoing study with two groups of students who offer
University Wide Courses (UWC) here at Covenant
University. Results from the pilot study conducted
gives us reasons to argue that a resent product by
Google simply known as “Google+” may be that
much desired formula that teachers and lectures all
over the world, need to boost the teaching and
learning experiences of both teachers, students and
researchers within and outside the classroom
environment.
Keywords
L Education (General), T Technology (General)