The focus of this presentation is to discuss emergent social media as a disruptive force facilitating the open sharing of educational content. The author presents case studies on the uses of social media to encourage open learning, collaborative learning, shared content and resources, curriculum collaborations, and student generated content. Bolter and Grusin propose that new digital media are not external agents that come to disrupt an unsuspecting culture. They emerge from within cultural contexts, and they refashion other media, which are embedded in the same or similar contexts. I demonstrate that social media can indeed serve as a disruptive force when appropriated, refashioned, and placed within a framework of critical inquiry and analysis, and that a movement to share open educational resources is part of this disruption. According to Lev Manovich in his seminal work The Language of New Media, the computer media revolution affects all stages of communication, including acquisition, manipulation, storage, and distribution; it also affects all types of media- texts, still images, moving images, sound, and spatial constructions. Social media such as Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Youtube, blogs, collaborative wikis, and a wide range of web 2.0 tools are taking this revolution to the next level as students and faculty appropriate the new media to create innovative approaches to teaching, learning, collaborating, and the open sharing of intellectual property and creative content. In addition, virtual worlds such as Second Life provide both an immersive medium and extensive tools for content creation, social networking, and the sharing of educational content. The author presents case studies on the uses of social media to encourage open learning, collaborative learning, shared content and resources, curriculum collaborations, and student generated content.

1. Social Media and the Open Sharing of Educational Content Nicola Martinez SUNY Empire State College The 15th Annual Sloan-C International Conference on Online Learning October 29. 2009

2. Abstract The focus of this presentation is to discuss emergent social media as a disruptive force facilitating the open sharing of educational content. The author will present case studies on the uses of social media to encourage open learning, collaborative learning, shared content and resources, curriculum collaborations, and student generated content. Emphasis: Theory/Conceptual Framework

4. [480] knowledge works as the tool of power. Hence it is plain that it increases with every increase of power --... in other words: the measure of desire for knowledge depends upon the measure to which the Will to power grows in a species: a species grasps a certain amount of reality in order to become master of it, in order to press it into service. @ 267

7. 21st Century Media Social media such as Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Youtube, blogs, collaborative wikis, and a wide range of web 2.0 tools, the 3D web, and immersive virtual worlds have disrupted “business as usual” in higher education.

8. Students and Faculty Appropriate social mediato create innovative approaches to teaching, learning, collaborating, and the open sharing of intellectual property and creative content.

10. access to more resources

11. direct contact with knowledge, experts, and information brokers

12. Creates a community of knowledge creators and co-creators

13. Creates new centers of knowledge and epistemologies

14. Emphasizes collaborationThis Disrupts the Power Balance

16. Autonomy

17. Media Lifeworld

18. Artificial Life

19. Authenticity

20. Power in the margins

21. Ownership

22. ChangeThis Disrupts the Power Balance

24. Virtual Worlds such as Second Life provide both an immersive medium and extensive tools for content creation, social networking, and the sharing of educational content.

29. Open Learn Educational and Teaching Resources British Open University http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/index.php http://labspace.open.ac.uk/

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33. Contact Information Nicola Martinez Director of Curriculum and Instructional Design Center for Distance Learning 113 West Avenue, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866 518-587-2100, ext. 2276 Nicola.Martinez@esc.edu Visit our web site at: http://www.esc.edu/cdl