Mandi AxmannLearning Design and

Academic Development

Social Media and eLearning:New challenges for online learning facilitation

Centre for Online Learning Excellence

Plenary Work

Time Plenary session Discussion

3:30-4:20 Understand the impact of social media on eLearning

Synchronous and Asynchronous discussions

• Implement and facilitate wikis as effective learning activity

• Implement and facilitate blogs as effective learning activity

• Implement and facilitate twitter as effective learning activity

4:20-5:00 Challenges for online facilitation

Question and Answer time

What is social media?

Source: Terry Anderson and Jon Dron presentation from Networked Learning 2012

Why do people use social media?

Global Students

• Think outside the box – creative and innovative skills

• Think across disciplines – design, technology, mathematics, art

• Smart about new sources of information

• Good people skills (Emotional intelligence)

• Work in large teams and across various cultures

What it means to be a global student?

Asynchronous communication

Anytime, anywhere, any device – different times

•Open-ended review and discussion

•Short papers and presentations

Discussion forums

•Reflective writing

•Critical writing

Blogs

•Instant feedback on progress

•Self/peer assessment

Quizzes

•Co-produce a piece of work

•Teams and small groups

Wikis

•Submission of reports and essays

•Exam papers

eSubmissions

•Collect and archive work

•Measure and track student performance

ePortfolios

Synchronous communication

Anytime, anywhere, any device – same time

•Skype for audio and video conferencing

•Presentation, discussion and collaboration

Webinars

•Messenger or Google Apps for instant messaging and file transfer

•Discussion and collaboration of group projects

Chat

•Camtasia for on-screen demonstrations

•Live video streaming

Video streaming

Learning technology = Connected learning

Source: Terry Anderson and Jon Dron presentation from Networked Learning 2012

Education

Wiki

• A wiki is a collaborative web site that collects and organizes content, created and revised by its users. – The most well-known example is Wikipedia.

What is a Wiki?

Wiki functions

Wiki

• Frequently Asked Questions• Knowledge base for a specific topic• Find group solutions to a problem• Develop standards or guidelines• Database of experiences with relevant stories• Gather requirements for a new product or design

Uses of a wiki

Wiki examples

Wiki: Terry the Tennisball

Edublogs

Edublogs archive and support student and teacher learning

• facilitating reflection • questioning by self and others • collaboration• providing contexts for engaging in higher-order

thinking.

Blogging

• Share materials, news, downloads, links• Facilitate online discussions and collaboration• Replace your newsletter - create a class publication

that students can easily publish• Get your students blogging so that they can share

their work and thoughts• Integrate videos, podcasts, and other media• Create blogs for student groups, events, teams• Get feedback or gather information (opinion polls)

Uses of blogs

Blog example: Visual Arts

Twitter

• Brainstorming• Publicity for important events, blog posts, websites, podcasts,

videos, live meetings/discussions, etc.• Twitter can serve as your support group when struggling with a

difficult task.• Twitter provides a way to virtually attend confererences, workshops,

conventions, etc. (via #hashtags).• Back channel during lecture (using event specfic hashtags ie.

#newtonfirstlaw) -- students can go back to Twitter to review, reflect, study key points shared

• Back channel during videos/slideshows• Back channel during student presentations

Uses

Digital revolution

Some more ideas

Talkshoe

iTunes U

Personalised Learning Networks

Network

Case study

Case study

Connect

Let your voice be heard

Teamwork

Speed Geeking

Evaluation

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