The incorporation of mobile
devices and social media content into everyday life has radically changed the
acquisition of information, reading, and learning mechanisms. As a consequence,
a part of the users today form a demand for rapid acquisition of knowledge. It
is now well known that users find information no longer only in printed, but in
online sources and libraries, and search mostly on the world wide web. Today
social networking sites have become a part of students’ every day. Online
social networking is now so deeply embedded in the lifestyles of students that
it rivals television for their attention, according to a new study from
Grunwald Associates LLC conducted in cooperation with the National School
Boards Association. These sites and services are both independent of time and
space and give students access to information as well as provide opportunity to
become members of virtual groups. At the same time, the information boom has
radically altered the teachers' roles. Teachers can no longer be a source of
information, but are now meant to provide methodological assistance to
students. There has never been such close links between the online
collaborative working and learning environment. Both Hungarian and
international practice shows many attempts and sets examples of direct or
indirect use of the latest ICT-s (Information and Communication Technologies)
in the teaching-learning processes. Due to the flexible nature of time and
space management in the digital age, the „raison d'etre” of electronic and
mobile learning is changing the environments and that is no longer question.
The modern learning environment supported by ICT, latest mobile devices and
online services is both effective and efficient. This modern communication
services in addition to both traditional, narrative and verbal elements are
built on new media elements where visuality and image sharing is a priority.
Many foreign (Lev Manovich) and Hungarian (Sándor Forgó) empirical analysis
deal with this issue. The new type of teaching-learning can addressed as
connectivism and connective knowledge, which is adapted to 21st century man
dynamic way of life. The central question to be examined in this paper is the
use of advanced mobile communication services and applications (social media
sites, virtual worlds, video sharing sites) in the base of higher education.
