Purpose: The paper focused on the part "How Social Media Enhanced Learning Platforms Challenge and Motivate Students to Take Charge of Their Own Learning Processes – A Few Examples" from the researches Increasing Student Engagement and Retention utilizing Social Technologies: Facebook, e-Portfolios and other Social Networking Services and on the writers' research on ICT and web-based social networking upgraded learning in the outside dialect/intercultural learning school and college environment. Design/Methodology/Approach: The paper examines learning as a rule and educational practices in the two segments and how web-based social networking improved learning stages challenge and motivate students in their learning forms. Findings: The paper gives cases from educational investigations completed at the DAV and in DPS. The authors concentrate on the changing part of educators from the customary part of (nearly) full instructor obligation regarding classroom activity to a training and encouraging part where students accept expanding accountability for their learning and for classroom exercises. The paper additionally examines the exchange and utilization of experiences made on the basis of changing educational practices and perspectives the positive and less positive experiences. Originality/Value: The paper shares work-in-advance involvement as to the developing collection of learning about the utilization of ICT in the twenty-first century classroom.