1) Social media is increasingly being used in relation to higher education to bridge formal and informal learning.
2) Examples of social media use in education include students using Facebook groups to collaborate, and professionals using LinkedIn or blogs to continue learning.
3) Emerging trends in education include massive open online courses (MOOCs), flipped classrooms, content curation, and increased personalized and collaborative learning through social media.
1. Social media in relation to higher
education
Steven Verjans, PhD
Scientific Centre for Teacher Research
Open Universiteit, The Netherlands
#SoMeKKS
2. Nice to meet you
• Who are you?
– Name, Institute, Department, Function / Role, Background
• Why are you here?
• Describe your project / your learning situation
– Domain
– Topic of the suggested course / curriculum
– Current / targeted student population
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3. If we
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A. Haddad, “technologies for education”
5. Social media in relation to higher education
OVERVIEW
• Social media intro
• Social media examples in learning
• Bridging between formal and informal learning
• Relevant trends in e-learning
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8. So Me use
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Steve Wheeler, Plymouth University, 2012
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articles 24 hours/minute
Source: http://econsultancy.com
9. 3000 years of time compressed to 24 hours
Timeline Communication Technology Date
11 minutes ago Gutenberg Printing Press 1450
3.4 minutes ago Morse Code 1838
2.7 minutes ago Telephone 1875
Steve Wheeler, Plymouth University, 2012
2.5 minutes ago Radio 1885
1.6 minutes ago Monochrome Television 1929
54 seconds ago Fax 1966
41 seconds ago Personal Computer 1977
38 seconds ago Analogue Mobile Telephone 1979
25 seconds ago World Wide Web 1990
22 seconds ago SMS Messaging 1993
13 seconds ago Broadband 2000
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second ago 3-D Television 2010
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Source : Ken Robinson (2011) Out of Our Minds
10. What do people do with social
media?
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26. Example 5 – Professionals in the
workplace going back to school
http://www.libraryschoolcampus.nl/
http://www.libraryschool.nl/
Bitter-Rijpkema, Verjans, Bruijnzeels (2011)
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31. Novel approaches to (2/3)
• Designing and developing learning materials
– Nuggets vs. whole courses (repurposeable?)
– Products vs half-products (redesignable?)
– Standards-based (reusable?)
• SCORM
– Open educational resources (accessible / reusable?)
• Authoring tools, such as eXe learning or Xerte
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32. Novel approaches to (3/3)
• Teacher – learner interaction
– ‘Guide at the side’ vs ‘Sage on the stage’
– Learning teams (student, colleague, peer, expert, teacher)
– Peer-pairing
– Flipped classroom
• E-coaching
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33. What about the future?
Social media = New tools for e-coaching
• Create virtual familiarity
– Blogging
– Microblogging
– Social networking
• Share content
– Social bookmarking
– Slides, photos, videos
– Documents, publications
• Be available on IM
– Skype, MSN, GTalk
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34. Reid, D. (2002) - Classification of online tutor
competencies
1. Technical knowledge
• Attitude, choice, resources, support, use
2. Content expertise
• Find/share resources, analyse questions, formulate tasks
3. Process facilitation
• Understand social process, communicate online, support
4. Evaluation
• Assessment, feedback, monitoring
5. Course management
• Administer, access, enroll
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42. Flipped classroom
• Instruction online (home): recorded lectures, exercises, etc.
– And other online learning materials available
• F2F moment: apply / practice / process
• Very trendy at the moment notably in the U.S.
– http://www.scoop.it/t/flippingtheclasslearn
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44. NYTimes: 2012 = The year of the
MOOC?
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/04/education/edlife/massive-open-online-courses-are-
multiplying-at-a-rapid-pace.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
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47. Future of learning (Nov 2011)
• CORE of learning
– Personalisation
– Collaboration
– Informalisation (informal learning)
• Central learning paradigm
– Lifelong and life-wide learning
– Shaped by ubiquitous presence of ICT
Fundamental shift
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48. NMC Horizon Report 2012 – Higher education
• 1 year or less
– Mobile apps
– Tablet computing
• 2-3 years
– Game-based learning
– Learning analytics
• 4-5 years
– Gesture-based computing
– Internet of things
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49. Where does it end?
http://heloukee.wordpress.com/
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