The Use of Blogs and Social Media for Technical Education in Specific Field of Materials Processing

Present paper presents a qualitative evaluation that was conducted at Petru Maior University of Tirgu-Mures in order to assess the status of awareness regarding the value and the importance of innovative IT&C solutions that can be more involved in education. The analyze reveals the fact that tools which are extensively used today in academic environment (blogs, podcasts, social networks, virtual environments) are not recognized by UPM staff as valuable tools for technical education. As a consequence there is an urgent need of dissemination of success stories and good practice related to this kind of tools. Consequently, the paper presents an innovative approach of using blogs and social media for technical educational purposes in the specific field of materials processing.