What we need to know more about is how groups will adopt social media technologies to develop team skills working together in student work groups. We know that insight into group dynamics and team processes will support success in developing team skills, but we don’t know for sure that using social media technologies will impact the way a team might progress through different developmental stages as they work to complete projects based.
Learning management based on the social networking technologies strongly drives the students’ interest in the classroom through blended activities. However, access through the networking system considered as the essential tool has limitations, for example, connection and access points. Teams within a classroom represent the creation of new constrained networks. Depending on the diversity of the underlying student population and how teams are formed, individual student networks may or may not overlap with networks of other students. How the prior networked relationships of team members impact the use of social media technologies as teams develop is unclear. There is great promise as social media technologies, by definition, are collaborative and thus have the potential to support students in their engagement with content, instructors, and their peers. This promise has direct implications on the potential to address the development of team skills through group work in a blended learning environment