Mandi Axmann Webinar presented 20 September 2012

1. Centre for Online Learning Excellence
Social Media and eLearning:
New challenges for online learning facilitation
Mandi Axmann
Learning Design and
Academic Development

2. Plenary Work
Time Plenary session Discussion
3:30-4:20 Understand the impact of Synchronous and Asynchronous
social media on eLearning 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 Question and Answer time
facilitation

3. What is social media?
Source: Terry Anderson and Jon Dron presentation from Networked Learning 2012

4. Why do people use social media?

5. Global Students
What it means to be a global student?
• 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

6. Asynchronous communication
Anytime, anywhere, any device – different times
• Open-ended review and discussion
Discussion forums • Short papers and presentations
• Reflective writing
Blogs • Critical writing
• Instant feedback on progress
Quizzes • Self/peer assessment
• Co-produce a piece of work
Wikis • Teams and small groups
• Submission of reports and essays
eSubmissions • Exam papers
• Collect and archive work
ePortfolios • Measure and track student performance

7. Synchronous communication
Anytime, anywhere, any device – same time
Webinars • Skype for audio and video conferencing
• Presentation, discussion and collaboration
• Messenger or Google Apps for instant messaging and
file transfer
Chat • Discussion and collaboration of group projects
Video • Camtasia for on-screen demonstrations
• Live video streaming
streaming

8. Learning technology = Connected learning
Source: Terry Anderson and Jon Dron presentation from Networked Learning 2012

9. Education

10. Wiki
What is a 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.

11. Wiki functions

12. Wiki
Uses of a 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

13. Wiki examples

15. Wiki: Terry the Tennisball

17. 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.

18. Blogging
Uses of blogs
• 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)

20. Blog example: Visual Arts

24. Twitter
Uses
• 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

25. Digital revolution

27. Some more ideas
Talkshoe

28. iTunes U

31. Personalised Learning Networks

32. Network

33. Case study

34. Case study

35. Connect

36. Let your voice be heard

37. Teamwork

38. Speed Geeking

39. Evaluation
Thanks for your attendance and participation
in this workshop.