LMS (D2L) and Social Media (SM): friends or foes?...

Plamen Miltenoff, Ph.D., MLIS

SCSU

2015 Minnesota D2L Ignite Conference

April 24, 2015http://www.slideshare.net/aidemoreto/lms-d2l-and-social-media

Objectives and Goals for this discussion:

• Generate ideas• Test established beliefs

• Decisions and solutions are beyond the scope of this discussion.

Objectives and Goals for this discussion:

• Test existing opinions and search for new ones: • is CMS (BB, D2L, Moodle, Sophia, Piazza etc.) sufficient to run a

student-centered, inquiry-based and engaging class?

• How does social media write itself in already technology-heavy environment, without eating on precious time needed for content development and content delivery?

Who am I

• Faculty at the SCSU Library.

http://web.stcloudstate.edu/pmiltenoff/faculty/

• Teach classes • LIB 290 Social Media in Global Context

http://web.stcloudstate.edu/pmiltenoff/lib290/

• Teach instruction sessions and workshops

• Interests: new technologies in education, web development, multimedia and interactivity, gaming and gamification etc.

backchanneling

• Volunteers needed

• Maintain the Twitter conversation: #LMSvsSM• Maintain the Adobe Connect conversation :

http://scsuconnect.stcloudstate.edu/ims(if anti-Twitter)

• A pro-D2L leader• Outline the pros [and cons] for CMS (D2L)

• A pro-SM leader • Outline the pros [and cons] for Social Media

Your mode of communication…

• I prefer to communicate and interact asynchronously with my students using D2L or Social Media

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• D2L

• Social Media

• both

Social Constructivism, Connectivism, …

• Vygotsky, Piaget, Erickson, Gagné, Skinner, Bandura etc.

• Not only are the meanings negotiated and formed in a social context, the process of education is one where learners move from one zone of proximal development to the next, mediated by others who have already reached beyond where the learner wishes to go. (p. 43)

Anderson, T., & Dron, J. (2014). Teaching Crowds: Learning and Social Media. Athabasca University Press. Retrieved from http://www.aupress.ca/index.php/books/120235

Your teaching style

• What teaching theory do you believe in (and practice)?

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• A - Nothing in particular, just relaying my material• B - Behaviorism – stimulus, response• C - Cognitivism – duplicating knowledge, construct of knower • D - Constructivism – socialization • E - Connectivism - Connecting to (adding nodes)• F – Others (please name it)

http://ci484-learning-technologies.wikispaces.com/Behaviorism,+Cognitivism,+Constructivism+%26+Connectivism

Student-centered, inquiry-based and engaging class• Student-centered class:

• Engages, includes explicit skill instruction, encourages students to reflect, motivates students by giving them some control over learning processes, encourages collaboration

http://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/effective-teaching-strategies/five-characteristics-of-learner-centered-teaching/#sthash.7c9x9Wc1.dpuf

• Inquiry-based learning:• Creating questions of their own, Obtaining supporting evidence, Explaining

the evidence collected, Connecting the explanation to the knowledge obtained from the investigative process, Creating an argument and justification for the explanation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inquiry-based_learning

Dynamics in my class• My preferred mode of teaching (as reflected in my syllabus) includes:

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• A - Lecturing mostly• B - Labs/group projects• C - Discussions/debates• D - Real-life projects• E - Paper-based produce (e.g. midterm, final papers)• F - Multimedia produce (e.g. MediaSite / YouTube movies)• G - Game-based learning• H - Going “out of the normal” in terms of content and format

CMS and SM: advantages and disadvantages

• CMS and SM - pros and cons in a student-centered class:• Engages, includes explicit skill instruction, encourages students to reflect,

motivates students by giving them some control over learning processes, encourages collaboration

• CMS and SM – pros and cons in an Inquiry-based learning:• Creating questions of their own, Obtaining supporting evidence, Explaining

the evidence collected, Connecting the explanation to the knowledge obtained from the investigative process, Creating an argument and justification for the explanation

My preference…

• Best communication happens when D2L is combined with the following Social Media tools

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• A - Facebook• B - Twitter• C – YouTube• D - Google +• E - Others (e.g. Snapchat, Vine, Flickr, Instagram, etc.)• F - None. LMS and Social Media must be kept separate

Assistance with technology (discussion)

• Use of technology in my classes is preferred but difficult to achieve

• I would be willing to explore combining Social Media with LMS, if I had more:• tech support,

• time (release),

• faculty support circle,

• Etc.

Feedback

• My teaching credo is based on:

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• A - My life and teaching experience• B - Feedback from the students in my classes• C - Feedback from the students collected institutionally• D - Feedback from the literature• E - All of the above

Discussion

• is CMS (BB, D2L, Moodle, Sophia, Piazza etc.) sufficient to run a student-centered, inquiry-based and engaging class?

• How does social media write itself in already technology-heavy environment, without eating on precious time needed for content development and content delivery?

LMS and Social media…

• … allies or foes?

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I believe:

• A - LMS and Social Media cannot mesh together

• B - LMS and Social Media can complement each other

• C - Neither LMS nor Social media are the answer

The Evolution of an Industry: From Course Management to a Digital Learning Ecosystem“The course-centric systems built over the last 15 years--and their modern day iterations--place a high priority on breadth of features and functions, but often at the expense of usability and a satisfying user experience. In an effort to stay competitive, LMS vendors have often cobbled together disparate technologies and this “bolt on” strategy has led to a marketplace of learning platforms that make lofty claims of functionality but ultimately fall short because student and faculty users find them unmanageable and lack intuitiveness.

Robert Tousignant, Schoology.

https://www.schoology.com/home.php

http://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2015/04/09/lms-as-a-concept-under-scrutiny/

NMC Horizon Report > 2014 Higher Education Preview

• Fast moving trend likely to create substantive change (or burn out) in one to two years• Social Media Use in Learning

• Social media is changing the way people interact, present ideas and information, and judge the quality of content and contributions. Educators, students, alumni, and even the general public routinely use social media to share news about scientific and other developments. The impact of these changes in scholarly communication and on the credibility of information remains to be seen, but it is clear that social media has found significant traction in almost every education sector

http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2014-horizon-he-preview.pdf

A constructivist approach and…

… learning in my class can happen using the following tools, techniques, approaches (outline in a word, if possible)…

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Plamen Miltenoff, Ph.D., MLISProfessor, MC 204J, Miller Center, SCSU

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