EXPLORING THE SECURITY ISSUES AFFECTING THE SCHOOL-BASED ADOPTION OF WEB 2.0 PARTICIPATION/COLLABORATION PATTERN

Social networking sites (SNS) reflect participatory nature of shared platforms for
professional and personal collaboration. With increased variety of collaborative tools
offering advanced features, knowledge sharing among professional and social peers has
become independent of space and time. This real-time mutual participation opens new
horizons for educational outcomes. Stakeholders (students, teachers and parents) of
schools can benefit from scholarly crowdsourcing for pedagogical innovations.
Participation of stakeholders in an educational environment may elicit contributions made
up of a variety of interactive content that is comprised of highly relevant knowledge and
is suitable for general consumption. On the other hand, in the absence of online safety
training, this non-traditional form of interaction, that makes use of digital media and
interactive communicationtools, has the potential for creating victims of cybercrime and
malicious activity