In recent days, most of the academic institutions across the world understand the usefulness of social networks for teaching and learning. In general, information is being transferred across the world for multiple purposes in different aspects through social media networks. In academic environment to enhance the teaching and learning processes social media networks are used to greater extent. Researchers and academicians are making use of social media tools, specifically Facebook, Blogs, Google groups, SkyDrive and Twitter for teaching and research. Further, the academic performance of students has been tested statistically by teachers using Social Networking Sites (SNS). The study has been carried out to understand the role of SNS in teaching environment which reveals that students are accessing various social media tools for information sharing and personal interaction. Finally, it has been observed from the analysis that there is increasing demand for the role of SNS in future education perspective. In this chapter the role of SNS in teaching environment is carried out elaborated and presented.
Leaders are doers the success of any organisation is vested in the hands of responsible and highly motivated leaders. A leader is one who knows the path and guides the followers to go on the right way by standing with them, lending support when ever needed. With this aspect, study on leadership style and its relation in determining the job satisfaction of teachers has been chosen to analyse the association of Transformational leadership style with job satisfaction of teachers working with the private degree colleges in the city of Bangalore
This study focuses on how principal leadership quality and style will influence the college teaching staff in determining the job satisfaction that in turn contributes to overall success of the colleges and even the student community. Correlation and Regression analysis is made to understand the significant relationship between the Principal leadership style and job satisfaction of teachers from teachers perspective.
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