[Open-education] Social Media in Education

Fri Apr 4 13:09:33 UTC 2014

Hi Andre,

I know that Pearson carried out some research into this last year 
(http://www.pearsonlearningsolutions.com/higher-education/social-media-survey.php) 
in the University space. They come up with some interesting conclusions, 
for example 55% of faculty found social media more distracting than useful.

Those experimenting with new open educational practices would probably 
disagree, so the flipped classroom 
(http://www.edudemic.com/guides/flipped-classrooms-guide/) idea makes 
frequent use of social media tools. I'm sure there are many great 
examples of activity - creating Wikis, writing blogs, using Twitter (to 
explore the reach of social media 
<http://www.wikihow.com/Use-Twitter-in-the-Classroom>), I know in the UK 
kids are trying out stuff form 11 years old onwards.

I spotted that the University of Regina actually run an open access 
course/MOOC on Social Media & Open Education http://eci831.ca/about/ - 
not currently running but there is a Google Plus community.

So some questions that come to mind...Does use of social media in 
teaching necessarily make it more open? What about blocked sites in some 
countries? What about privacy, data, logins, ethical concerns etc.? Can 
social media be fully utilised to support openness? I'm sure there are 
more...

We are hoping to cover this in more detail in the handbook 
<http://booktype.okfn.org/open-education-handbook/_draft/_v/1.0/what-examples-of-open-learning-and-practice-are-there/> 
if anyone is interested in exploring more.

Marieke

On 04/04/2014 13:40, Andre Jaenisch wrote:
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> Dear list readers,
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> today, I've read an article about bringing Social Media (here: Facebook
> and Twitter) into the education:
> http://kirche20.at/blog/social-media-im-unterricht-ja-aber-wie
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> It had little success, since pupil do not want to mix private life and
> teaching on their networks.
>
> I'm wondering, how it looks like in other parts of the world. Can you
> provide some use cases and stories?
>
> Best regards
>
>
> André Jaenisch
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