Learning with online social

networks

Professor Frank RennieLews Castle College

University of the Highlands and Islands

The Main Issues• What is social networking?• What is it used for?• How can it be used in education?• Pros and Cons• Why is this important?• How does it impact upon

individuals and communities?

From Grainne Conole at www.slideshare.net/grainne

E-Pedagogies

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AssociativeFocus on individualLearning through association and reinforcement

ConstructivistBuilding on prior knowledgeTask-orientated

SituativeLearning through social interactionLearning in context

ConnectivistLearning in a networked environment

E-trainingDrill & practiceMobile learning

Inquiry learningResource-based

Experiential Problem-based Role play

Reflective & dialogic learning, Personalised learning

Web 2.0• Interactive rather than Broadcast• Participative rather than a passive receptor• Collaborative rather than a single author

– Wikis, Blogs, Video, Audio, Social Networks…..

• Attention rather than Information is premium

• Tests truth and its application• Context in addition to Contents• Personalised learning – multi-media etc.

http://www.freefoto.com/preview/01-17-2/Spiders-Web

100’s of online social networks

http://kikolani.com/becoming-accessible-social-networking-social-media.html

Complex Adaptive Systems

Stability domainsSelf-organisationComplex system cycles

Hyper-interactivity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnQcCgS7aPQ

Networking

http://research.uow.edu.au/learningnetworks/seeing/snapp/index.html

It is the connections

that are important

The role of peer support

• Reference• Reinforcement• Recommendation• Resource Co-creation

Communities of Inquiry

• Social Presence– identification within a community with trusted

relationships• Cognitive Presence

– constructing knowledge, discussing, confirming, reflecting

• Teaching Presence– a consistent pedagogical approach to facilitation

of the above to enable worthwhile leaning experiences

Photograph sharing

Examples of OER

OER Course Mosaic

E-textbooks• E-tips (e-textbook institutional

publishing services)– Create and distribute two e-textbooks– Supplementary website resources– Investigate their use– Document the production process

• Network the global academy• Print on demand options

Opportunities for further study

Build on stability domainsLayer the nodes of resources

The Attention Economy

18th Century - The Scottish Enlightenment

http://www.freefoto.com/preview/9909-08-2924/Edinburgh-Fringe-2009

Europe’s first public education system

The triumph of rational thinking

The New Enlightenment

OEROpen Access

Creative CommonsCrowd Sourcing

Key Points• Open access to user-generated resources is

changing the way we use information• Use the pedagogy to exploit the affordances of

the educational technology• The learning process is more important than the

ability just to assimilate content• Remain flexible to capitalise on innovation and

the unpredictability of complex adaptive networks

• A key challenge is to learn to share the control of the teaching/learning experience.

Networked learning (amazon.co.uk)

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