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Social Media and Mobile Technology: Fostering Connected Learning

Carrie SaarinenInstructure and Visiting Instructor, Salem State University

Malcolm BrownEDUCAUSE Learning Initiative

Chrystal Porter Endicott College

NEASC 2013

facebook

twitter

Linked In

google+

facebook 1,900,000

What is a city?

Minneapolis

SeattleCambridge

PortlandHong Kong

facebook

twitter

Linked In

google+

Social media:

digital technologies

create

collaborate

share

deliberate

micro content

“Today’s learner is in a position to integrate a wide array of personal connections, resources, and collaborations.. in order to construct the pathways that are needed to meet personal educational goals.”

“Today’s learner is in a position to integrate a wide array of personal connections, resources, and collaborations.. in order to construct the pathways that are needed to meet personal educational goals.”

Mobile devices are the particle accelerators of social media

android 1B in 4.5 yrs

FB1B in 9 yrs

iOS 700M in 5 yrs

Ownership

ECAR 2013 Undergraduate Study, p. 24

ECAR 2013 Undergraduate Study, p. 27

“Even more students in 2013 than in 2012 said face-to-face interaction, e-mail, and the LMS are ways in which they want their instructors to communicate more. Social media outlets topped the “use it less” list.”

p. 39

Social media:

enable personalized pathways

need to be deliberately integrated

Where do we go from here?after 15 years of the “social web”

20131.19 billion Facebook users (social networking)120 million Google Drive users (shared writing)200 million Twitter users (400 million tweets/day)Vine launched by Twitter (micro video sharing)

2012775,000 iOS apps available in iTunes Store675,000 Android apps available in Google Play Google Hangouts, new free video conferencingNexus 7 (competes with iPad, Kindle Fire)

2011Facebook reaches 800 million usersGoogle+ (competes with Facebook)Kindle Fire (competes with iPad)

2010Instagram share photos via smart phonesiPad launched

2009Nook eReader launched by Barnes & Noble

2008Android Marketplace opens (now Google Play)VoiceThread digital storytelling application

2007Apple releases iPhone with swipe, pinch interfaceTwitter launched Kindle eReader launched by AmazoniTunes U opens

2006Jeff Han demonstrates touch screen at TEDJotSpot wiki launched; acquired by Google Diigo social bookmarking platform

2005YouTube (acquired by Google in 2006)Peanut Butter Wiki (now PB Works) free wiki hostingWikispaces - free wiki hosting

2004Gmail free email service launched by GoogleFacebook social networking site launchedFlickr photo sharing

2003TypePad blogging service launched by Say MediaWordpress open source blogging platform Delicious social bookmarking websiteMySpace social website (most visited web site in 2006)Skype launched as peer to peer video calling serviceiTunes Store opens for music downloads

1999Blogger, Pyra Labs (acquired by Google in 2003)

1998WikiWikiWeb is the first wiki (meaning “quick”) web editing tool (thanks to AJAX web programming)Amazon.com opens for business allowing anyone to write book reviews and rate book titles

ECAR Students and Technology Annual Survey 2013

Infographic: http://www.educause.edu/library/resources/ecar-study-undergraduate-students-and-information-technology-2013

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ation-technology-201376% of college

students own smart phones

31% of college

students own tablets

89% of college

students own laptops

Top 10 IT Issues (2013)1. Leveraging the wireless and device explosion on campus

2. Improving student outcomes through an approach that leverages technology

3. Developing an institution-wide cloud strategy to help the institution select the right sourcing and solution strategies

4. Developing a staffing and organizational model to accommodate the changing IT environment and facilitate openness and agility

5. Facilitating a better understanding of information security and finding appropriate balance between infrastructure openness and security

6. Funding information technology strategically

7. Determining the role of online learning and developing a sustainable strategy for that role

8. Supporting the trends toward IT consumerization and bring-your-own device

9. Transforming the institution's business with information technology

10. Using analytics to support critical institutional outcomes

Grajek, S. (2013) Top-Ten IT Issues, 2013: Welcome to the Connected Age. EDUCAUSE Review Online. http://www.educause.edu/ero/article/top-ten-it-issues-2013-welcome-connected-age

• Dr. Chrystal Denmark PorterAssociate Dean of the Graduate School

Endicott College

In the beginning…

-Learned DOS -Consumed—>Modified —

>-Produced

CollegiateExpectation

Chrystal Denmark Porter, Ph.D., Ed.S.

The purpose of the study was to describe the expectations that millennial generation students had regarding their collegiate experiences, focusing on student responses about student-faculty interaction and course learning (Porter, 2007).

-Continuation of research about teaching excellence within the discipline of Sport Management

• Edutainment

• Using traditional methods to design a course and deliver course content through traditional formats may not, many cases, be the best method instructors should use if they are truly interested in the students learning process (Oblinger, 2003).

• The modern system of higher education includes salient features: an open and flexible system, direct and easy access to every learner, a broad based and futuristic visionary stream of learning, edutainment and infotainment and student-centered learning, that is more emphasis on insight and knowledge than mere information collection, new knowledge with a personal touch and need and utility-oriented learning (Popli, 2005).

We published a book!

lulu.com

And another one…lulu.com

pbworks.com

–Iyanla Vanzant

“A true teacher will look you dead in the eye, call you out of hiding and celebrate with you in the joy of standing in your

truth.”

• Finding the balance between want and need

–Students–Faculty–Institution (i.e. resources, mission)–Outside factors (i.e. accreditation agencies)

–Kevin Kelly

“It’s amazing, yet we are not amazed.”

–Kevin Kelly

“We have to get better at believing in the impossible.”

Discussion

Thank you!

Carrie SaarinenInstructurecarrie@instructure.com

Malcolm BrownEDUCAUSE Learning Initiativembrown@educause.edu

Chrystal Porter Endicott Collegecporter@endicott.edu

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