  New Mobile technologies have created a new social dimension where individuals
can develop increased levels of their social awareness by keeping in touch with
old friends, making new friends, dispense new data or product, and getting
information in many more aspects of everyday lives, making one to become more
knowledgeable which is very beneficial especially for students. Social
networks, in particular enable users to share and discuss common interests and
provide infrastructures for integrating various user experiences: synchronous
and asynchronous communication, game-playing, sharing links and files. The
trend of using social networks and social media to deliver and exchange
knowledge could bring a new era of social learning in which learners make use
all four language skills of reading, writing, listening and speaking. Unlike a
traditional e-leaning paradigm with pre-defined curriculum and standard
textbooks, social knowledge could be aggregated on demand, just in time, and in
context of engaging challenges from social networks, making learning more
exciting, social and, game-like experience. Social learning environment engages
the learners in discussion, collaboration, exploration, production, discovery
and creation. Schools should harness this to develop group collaboration skills
and even project based learning activities that span subjects and grade levels.
This paper focuses on technologies and avenues of using mobile phones in
supporting open social learning among undergraduate students in Nigeria.
