social media in relation to higher education

Social media in relation to higher education

Steven Verjans, PhD

Scientific Centre for Teacher Research

Open Universiteit, The Netherlands

#SoMeKKS

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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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If we

are going

in the wrong

direction,technology

will get us

there FASTER!

A. Haddad, “technologies for education”

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Technology changes education?

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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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Sociale media

Bron: http://www.liones.nl/wat-we-doen/publicaties/liones-social-media-whitepaper.6778.lynkx

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Bron: Kelly Hodgkins

http://gizmodo.com/5813875/what‐happens‐in‐60‐seconds‐on‐the‐internet

So Me use 

>800 Million

>200 Million >150 Million

>260 Million

>14 million 

articles

>4 Billion images

Source: http://econsultancy.com

2 Billion views/day24 hours/minute 

Steve Whe

eler, Plymou

th University

, 201

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>170 Million

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Timeline Communication Technology Date

11 minutes ago Gutenberg Printing Press 1450

3.4 minutes ago Morse Code 1838

2.7 minutes ago Telephone 1875

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

1 second ago 3-D Television 2010

Source : Ken Robinson (2011) Out of Our Minds

3000 years of time compressed to 24 hours

Steve Whe

eler, Plymou

th University

, 201

2

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What do people do with social media?

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http://theconversationprism.com/

http://carlhaggerty.wordpress.com/tag/conversation-prism/

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Learning?

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Example 1 – My son in high school

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You can’t stop them, but do you want to?

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Example 2 – My students at Open Universiteit

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OU students on Studienet

On FB

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Example 3 – Students at my previous university http://japanologie.arts.kuleuven.be/

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Example 4 – Professionals in the workplace http://biebkracht.nl/welkom

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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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Bridging between formal and informal learning – anything new?

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Novel approaches to (1/3)

• Designing learning situations

– Networked learning

– Across boundaries: students, colleagues, experts, teachers

– Open vs. Closed (opening up closed environments)

• Assessment

– Work-related assessment• Assignment / essay / project-based learning / problem-based

– Peer assessment / 360 degrees assessment

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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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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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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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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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Relevant trends in e-learning?

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Collaborative content curation?

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Wat is content curation? http://www.slideshare.net/corinnew/reenvisioning-modern-pedagogy-educators-as- curators-11879841

• Aggregation

– http://paper.li/sverjans

• Curation

– http://www.scoop.it/u/sverjans#pg=1&mi=topics&si=followe d&panel=followedPanel

– http://www.scoop.it/u/sverjans

– http://storify.com/catherinecronin/what-it-takes-to-teach- online

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NYTimes: 2012 = 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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Massive Open Online Course

• cMOOC

– Siemens, Downes, Couros, de Waart

– Connectivist MOOCs

• xMOOC

– Stanford, MIT, Coursera, edX

– Lecture MOOCs

http://www.elearnspace.org/blog/2012/07/25/moocs-are-really-a-platform/

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Flipped classroom?

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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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http://usergeneratededucation.wordpress.com/2011/06/13/the-flipped-classroom-model-a-full-picture/

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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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Massive Open Online Course

• cMOOC

– Siemens, Downes, Couros, de Waart

– Connectivist MOOCs (http://lak12.mooc.ca/index.html)

• xMOOC

– Stanford, MIT, Coursera, edX

– Lecture MOOCs

http://www.elearnspace.org/blog/2012/07/25/moocs-are-really-a-platform/

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Trendrapporten

http://ftp.jrc.es/EURdoc/JRC66836.pdf

http://www.nmc.org/horizon-project

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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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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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Where does it end? http://heloukee.wordpress.com/

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Result

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qj9AGxYPD0A

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgY4f19KH0k

That’s all, folkshttp://www.ou.nl/

http://netvibes.com/sverjans

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Reference

– M.E. Bitter-Rijpkema, S. Verjans, R. Bruijnzeels, (2012) "The Library School: empowering the sustainable innovation capacity of new librarians", Library Management, Vol. 33 Iss: 1/2, pp.36 - 49 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/01435121211203301