Social Networking and Distance Education: A Taxonomy
Michael Simonson
Program Professor
Instructional Technology and Distance Education
Nova Southeastern University
North Miami Beach, Florida
Web 2.0
www.nova.edu/~simsmich
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3Di Web 2.0
Web 2.0 and the 3D internet usher in the age of the Free Range Learner
Web 1.0
Access ParticipateValueProposition
PosterChildren
Find Share Collaborate Co-Create
LearningProgression
Dr. Tony O’DriscollNorth Carolina State University
Gartner
Learning About Social Networking: A Taxonomy
Level 1: Learning about social networks – definitions, history, background, and examples.
Level 2: Designing for social networks – profiling, blogging, wiki-ing, and friending.
Level 3: Studying social networks – ethics, uses, mis-uses, policing, supporting.
Level 4: Learning from and with social networks – social networks for teaching and learning, science, research, and theory building.
Judith Tabron, Director of Faculty Computing Services, Hofstra University
The Chronicle of Higher Education, March 28, 2008
“Our students live online. The fall in love, they shop, they order pizza on the web. Their iPods, TV’s and Xboxes are sophisticated technologies. They instant-message their blogs from their cellphones, and they can’t picture a college having a place in any of this, because we haven’t show them that we can.”
“It will be a dismal future if the only thing our graduates cannot do online is learn.”
Learning Communities: Social Networking in Distance Education?