Abstract:

Although potential educational uses of social media was not the reason behind the emergence of social media tools, a trend towards recognizing the educational uses is visible. Social media allows learners to learn from each other (horizontal learning) in the real-life context (authentic learning) most of time, to collaborate with each other to reach a goal, and to participate actively to educational processes. Problem-based learning which is strongly associated with case-based learning is a common approach in medical schools in particular. However, the links between educational uses of social media and problem-based learning are not researched extensively in relevant literature. Thus, in this article, the following were considered: Definitions of problembased learning, its applicability at the program level, the process of tutoring, effectiveness of the model, tutoring by staff vs. students and experts vs. non-experts, educational uses of social media and finally, feasibility of social media for problem-based learning

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