Web-based Collaborative-network & Facebook in TVET to Enhance Teaching

Tremendous changes are happening in Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET). Classrooms are being upgraded with 21st century through technological approaches. The advancements of technology help educators know much more about students’ personal learning in order to provide them with a suitable learning environment and deliver personalized instructions. Social media, video games, blogs and wikis are playing increasingly important roles in TVET classrooms across the country. Some worry that incorporating more social media and other technologies into TVET is leading to too much computer time, as well as to a generation of students deficient in the face-to-face social skills needed to survive in the workplace. Proponents say schools need to find ways to use these technologies to improve teaching and learning, or else risk losing the attention of digital natives. Technique of Web-based collaborative networking is already one of the most common ways that communication occurs virtually. While the majority of users spend time communicating with those who have already built relationships with in reality, it may also have the potential to build relationships virtually. Anyone who knows some basics of Web, will surely be a Facebook user. Most of the people around the globe find Facebook very useful to share their status updates, visits, photos, videos, life events, etc. with their friends and followers. However, the Web-based Collaborative-network & Facebook can be used to enhance teaching-learning process very effectively. The main aim of the article was to examine educational use of Web-based Collaborative-network & Facebook. Thus the objectives of the articles were to (i) expose how teachers collaborate with students using Facebook groups; (ii) find out the best ways to connect and to collaborate with teachers globally; (iii) identify how students think critically, collaborative and the way of CERCA, and (iv) explain uses, advantages and practices of Wiki’s in TVET.