exploring the right social media platforms to engage students in the learning process: using a...

Kelly Costa

Exploring the Right Social Media Platforms to Engage Students

in the Learning Process: Using a Knowledge Model

PhD CandidateFaculty of Business & Enterprise

E-Learning Summit 2013

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OUTLINE

• Choosing the right social media platforms for the following knowledge purposes: ✔ Identification ✔ Creation ✔ Quality Assurance ✔ Dissemination

• What is the role of social media in scholarly networking?

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“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but rather the one most adaptable to change.”

Charles Darwin, 1891

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✔ 1 Experimental Science ✔ 2 Theoretical Science ✔ 3 Computational Science ✔ 4 Data-Intensive Science

THE FOURTH PARADIGM

Hey, Tansley & Tolle, 2009

Swinburne LEARNING STYLES AND STRAGEGIES

Felder & Soloman, 2000

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✔ Democratic

✔ Dialogue

✔ Collaboration

✔ Convenience

✔ Whatever Time

✔ Social Proof

Cialdini, 1984; Qualman, 2011; Shirky, 2011

Democratic

✔ Dialogue

✔ Collaboration

✔ Convenience

✔ Whatever Time

Social Proof

Social media Learning Process

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Swinburne Albert-László Barabási

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Charlene Li

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KNOWLEDG

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Identification

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KNOWLEDGE MODEL

Consolidation/Creation

Quality Assurance

Adapted from A Cann, K Dimitriou, T Hooley, 2011, p. 15

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✔ Blogging: Blogger, LiveJournal, WordPress

✔ Microblogging: Twitter

✔ Social Bookmarking: Delicious, Diigo, Bibsonomy

✔ Social Citation Sharing: Mendely, CiteUlike

✔ Filtering: RSS, Widgets

1 – Knowledge Identification

Cann, Dimitriou & Hooley, 2011

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CONFERENCING

SOCIALNETWORKING

WIKIS

SOCIALDOCUMENTS

2 - Knowledge Consolidation/Creation

Skype, Google+, Adobe Connect

Cann, Dimitriou & Hooley, 2011

Facebook, Twitter, Google+

Google Docs, Dropbox, Zoho

Wikipedia

Swinburne 3 – Knowledge Quality Assurance

✔ Follow the Experts!!!...

Journal Article:'Using Blogs and New Media in Academic Practice: Potential Roles in Research, Teaching, Learning, and Extension’

Innovative Higher Education, pp. 1-12.

Power, Jacob & Chapman, 2012

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SCHOLARS’ SOCIAL NETWORKINGwww.methodspace.com

www.researchgate.nethttp://network.nature.com

SCHOLARS’ WEBSITESRead the Experts’ social media platforms

Cann, Dimitriou & Hooley, 2011

CROWDSOURCING Collaborative writing via social documents

Expert Forums

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Blogs• Microblog

Present.

Sharing• Slideshare• Scribd

Videos and

Audios• Youtube• Live

Streaming

Photos• Flickr

4 – Knowledge Dissemination

Cann, Dimitriou & Hooley, 2011

Swinburne What is the role of social media in scholarly networking?

✔ Facilitation of information searching ✔ Dissemination and sharing ✔Archiving and preserving

✔ Professional networking: • www.cloudworks.ac.uk

• www.linkedin.com

Collaboration

Conole and Culver, 2010

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E-Research

✔ Cloud computing ✔ 3D visualisation and augmented reality ✔ Data acquisition, modelling and analysis ✔ Digital repositories: scientific and

metadata✔ E-Methodologies and e-methods

✔ New Publication Models ✔ Online and satellite surveys ✔ Secure connectivity

Hey, Tansley & Tolle, 2009Cann, Dimitriou & Hooley, 2011

TRENDS

Kelly Costa

THANK YOU

PhD CandidateFaculty of Business & EnterpriseE-Mail: kcostadonascimento@swin.edu.auLinkedIn: CostaKelly Slideshare: CostaKelly