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


If we

are going

in the wrong

direction,technology

will get us

there FASTER!

A. Haddad, “technologies for education”


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


Sociale media

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


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

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>170 Million


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

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What do people do with social media?


http://theconversationprism.com/

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


Learning?


Example 1 – My son in high school





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


Example 2 – My students at Open Universiteit


OU students on Studienet

On FB


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

http://japanologie.arts.kuleuven.be/



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

http://biebkracht.nl/welkom



Example 5 – Professionals in the workplace going back to school http://www.libraryschoolcampus.nl/ http://www.libraryschool.nl/

Bitter-Rijpkema, Verjans, Bruijnzeels (2011)

http://www.libraryschoolcampus.nl/

http://www.libraryschool.nl/



Bridging between formal and informal learning – anything new?


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




• 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



• 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


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


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


Relevant trends in e-learning?


Collaborative content curation?

http://www.slideshare.net/corinnew/reenvisioning-modern-pedagogy-educators-as-curators-11879841



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

http://paper.li/sverjans

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

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

http://www.scoop.it/u/sverjans

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

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


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

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/04/education/edlife/massive-open-online-courses-are-multiplying-at-a-rapid-pace.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0



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/


Flipped classroom?


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

http://www.scoop.it/t/flippingtheclasslearn


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


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




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://lak12.mooc.ca/index.html



Trendrapporten

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

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

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

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


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


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


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

http://heloukee.wordpress.com/2011/12/11/running-a-module-as-an-arg-a-k-a-the-rufi-franzen-mystery/





Result

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

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

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


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

http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/01435121211203301

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Social media in relation to higher education