[Open-education] Social Media in Education

Fri Apr 4 17:24:38 UTC 2014

Hello all,

A lot of the social constructivist approach to pedagogy uses social media,
or networking at least to facilitate this. Social constructivism works on
the basis that the network between people aids learning and that students
can teach each other and so on. There is thinking behind this is that using
a more mesh topology means a course structure in this way could expand and
become massive but without suffering from a lack of teaching as may occur
in bigger MOOCs (such as coursera). This partially underpins the cMOOC /
xMOOC distinction.

ds106, etcmooc, phonar and cck08 are good places to start looking.

Open - well is making it a requirement open, or is it topologically more
open because it is easier to join

hope this helps

Pat

On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 2:09 PM, Marieke Guy <marieke.guy at okfn.org> wrote:

>  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,
>
> 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
>
> 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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