The College of Education for Humanities (Ibn Rushd) held an electronic workshop entitled “Social networking sites and their role in spreading scientific knowledge” delivered by the assistant dean for scientific affairs & graduate studies, Prof. Dr. Huda Abbas Qanbar. The workshop aimed to show the role of social media sites in spreading science and knowing its benefits and disadvantages.
The workshop included an overview of social media sites and their types, the introduction of scientific knowledge and its types and ways of transferring knowledge through the service of networking sites as well as the presentation of the study procedures and analysis of the data of the questionnaire. The workshop recommended urging the teaching to invest social media sites to share knowledge, experiences and cultures with various teachers with specialization, whether from inside or outside the country and to publicize their scientific activities via channels of communication with professors and students.
