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faculty in response to a 2004 UCLA Office of Instructional Development RFP
for blended instruction courses, and made recommendations regarding expected
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Force to investigate blended instruction options for information literacy credit
courses and labs. The BICo Task Force was charged with investigating and
making recommendations for a model 1-unit information literacy blended instruction
course which would combine elements of in-person and online instruction.
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for information literacy and for other disciplines, including those proposed by
faculty in response to a 2004 UCLA Office of Instructional Development RFP
for blended instruction courses, and made recommendations regarding expected
learning outcomes, curricula, assignments and grading, instructional formats,
types of technology (hardware & software) used to teach “blended courses,”
and assessment of effectiveness, as well as training needs.
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statistical analysis the information will be used as starting points for other scholarly
inquiries. Our long term goals also include a comparison of the respective research results
with similar scholarly programs performed in Hungary and in other countries as well.
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methodological components of teacher training programs is expected to obtain a strategic
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efficiency of the heretofore delivered courses in light of the new learning options. Presently
the respective research results are being processed and following a more sophisticated
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inquiries. Our long term goals also include a comparison of the respective research results
with similar scholarly programs performed in Hungary and in other countries as well.
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significance. The Eszterházy Károly College adopting such initiatives has proven to be a
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(UPC) and the University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT), which works with two groups of students,
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of technologies are used to prepare students for the lessons, through learning activities and content.
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participants’ experiences in a course that uses a blended learning methodology, with the aim of
collecting empirical evidence to justify the effort of applying this methodology, based on the
participants’ satisfaction. The procedure used in the conceptualization of the survey, the generation of
topics, the collection of data, and the validation of the scale of various items are described here. The
information, provided by the 26 people surveyed about the course and the virtual environment that
was used, was analyzed to measure their perceptions and explore possible relations. Finally the
conclusions of the research and the future work are presented.
Integration of social tools in the curriculumLiz Pagan
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Visualising social computing output: Mapping student blogs and tweetseDavidCameron
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Draft version. This is a preprint version of the book chapter:
Cameron, D., Finlayson, A., & Wotzko, R. (2011). Visualising social computing output: Mapping student blogs and tweets. In B. White, I. King & P. Tsang (Eds.), Social media tools and platforms in learning environments (pp. 337-352). Heidelberg: Springer.
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Social Media and Education
Class Objectives
• To provide an overview of the use of social media in educational institutions
• To explore how social media is used to advance education
Introduction
The internet has opened up spaces for individuals from different parts of the world,
generations, class, gender and race to gain access to higher education. These forms
of “borderless” learning platforms allow professors to facilitate linear interactions
with students as students take charge of their learning by posing questions and
posting content virtually. The popularity of online courses is demonstrated by a
study conducted by the learningSloan Foundation study consisting of more than
2,500 colleges and universities. The study findings indicated that online enrolments
were growing substantially faster than overall higher education enrolment, and the
17% growth rate in online enrolments far exceeds the 1.2% growth rate in the
overall higher education population (Allen & Seaman, 2010, cited in LeNoue, Hall,
Eighmy, 2011, pp. 4-5). Allen and Seaman classified an online course as one in which
more than 80% of content is delivered online and reported that over 4.6 million
students were taking such courses during the fall 2008 term (p.5). Clearly, online
courses are becoming a preferred means of learning mainly because of their
convenience—students are able to navigate, full time employment, family
responsibilities and other commitments. Many online instructional settings utilize
content management systems that allow for a two way communication between
students and the professor. The forums deviate from lecture structures and
professors in the online context as seen as facilitators of knowledge encouraging
active and experiential learning and teamwork to enhance cooperation and
collaboration. Would you categorize the online classes provided by UCW as a social
media forum?
Beyond online classrooms, universities use social media mainly for marketing,
communication and alumni relations. Universities now combine the use of social
media with their own homepages as a recruitment tools (For example, last year
UCW’s homepage provided access to Facebook, Twitter and YouTube). Universities
are also using social media to reach out to their alumni. A 2012 survey by the
Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (an association of university
and college professionals in development, alumni affairs and communications)
shows that 83 percent of U.S. colleges and universities are using social media to
engage alumni, with 96 percent on Facebook, 80 percent on Twitter, 73 percent on
YouTube, and 68 percent on LinkedIn (Frank, 2013). These statistics give an
illustration of how social media are used for communication between universities
and the public.
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Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
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Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
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The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
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Online students initiate informal learning practices using social tools
1. From the field
Online students initiate informal learning practices
using social tools
Authors Various informal learning processes were developed during a course at the IL3-UB,
when participants engaged in numerous out-of-class communication and exchange ac-
Anna Rubio Carbó
tivities. This study aims to determine students’ perceptions of what they learned and
Information Head of
investigate their transference of Web 2.0 learning to the workplace. Preliminary conclu-
Innovation Department,
IL3-UB, Institute for Lifelong sions are presented.
Learning, University of
Barcelona, Spain
anna.rubio@ub.edu
1. Background to the research
Núria Serrat Antolí
In the current process of redefining the university1, learning strategies from outside the
Lecturer, Department of
classroom and beyond university studies have become an important cause to defend (Hin-
Didactics and Educational
Organization, University of ton, 2009; Serrat, Rubio & Cano, 2010). This has led to the integration of informal learning
Barcelona, Spain strategies into both university and further education courses (Livingston, 2000; Eraut, 2004).
nserrat@ub.edu Concurrently, higher education and postgraduate studies have been incorporating Web 2.0
tools for constructing and sharing knowledge (Wheeler, 2009; Buchem & Hamelmann, 2011).
Blending these two elements, we see that informal learning finds in Web 2.0 a broad and
Tags
fruitful field of action (Brown & Adler, 2008). Beyond the limits of formal curricula (Living-
Higher education; ston, 2000), while informal learning is generated in an implicit and unstructured way in un-
networking skills; foreseen and unplanned situations (Eraut, 2004), the frequent and varied exchanges involved
knowledge transference in Web 2.0 in turn become material for further informal learning (Jokisalo & Riu, 2009).
In this context, the University of Barcelona Institute for Lifelong Learning (IL3-UB) offers on-
line and face-to-face masters and courses with a professional orientation. It is firmly commit-
ted to the development of lifelong learning strategies. Thus, apart from using Moodle as an
LMS to support learning, other Web 2.0 elements are used to foster students’ personal and
professional development.
During the last academic year (2010-11), one particular group caught our attention. On the
Community Management and Social Media postgraduate course the participants carried
out, apart from teacher-set tasks, numerous out-of-class communication and information
exchange activities. These were Web 2.0 exchanges defined by the students themselves: no
one planned, guided or assessed them. Unprompted, and from the very beginning, students
shared a hash tag on Twitter, became highly active users of a Facebook group, joined LinkedIn
and created a blog and online newspaper to keep in touch and share news on Community
Management tasks.
If achieving objectives on the postgraduate course involved learning how to use these tools
as internet communication strategies, these students were learning the tools at the same
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time as using them for informal learning purposes. Which ones 3. Some preliminary results and
were students most actively using? And for what purpose? conclusions
Though this is only a single group, and thus not a significant Although we are currently, in September 2011, still analysing
sample of the IL3-UB student body, we were interested in find- the results in depth, we present here some preliminary conclu-
ing out what type of activities these students had autonomous- sions.
ly developed, to what point these activities had led them to de-
velop informal learning strategies, and what their opinions of Concerning the tools most frequently used, we can conclude
these strategies were. that the students did not access the Moodle classroom as fre-
quently as is normal on such courses, although they were aware
of what was happening there. Messages inside the LMS were
2. Aims of the study and methodology limited to course activities, adopting a more formal and aca-
utilized demic style. Social networks –mainly Facebook, LinkedIn and
With these reflections in mind we designed a study with three Twitter– were used as natural extensions of the classroom and
main aims: as natural sites of learning.
a) To find out what uses were made of which social tools Facebook was by far the most popular meeting point. Principally
(when related to the course contents). students –but also teachers– shared materials of general inter-
b) To determine students’ perceptions both of what they est (congresses, complementary training, work vacancies, etc)
gained from the group and of their partners’ contribu- or related to the course modules (documents, presentations,
tions. videos), and discussed and evaluated their own and other com-
munity members’ publications. Nearly two months after the
c) To determine whether they transferred to the workplace
course, it is still a much-used social space for both students and
what they had learnt from the social tools.
teachers.
Our sample focused on the 84 students on the above-mentioned
postgraduate course. The sample was interesting for the study Surprisingly, aside from informal exchanges, formal conversa-
not only because of its technophile pro-social tools profile, but tions also took place on Twitter. For example, there students ex-
also because the average age was around 35, which meant that changed links from course modules, asked questions to ensure
many students worked in areas closely related to the course correct understanding of wording in activity instructions, and
contents and showed an interest in keeping up-to-date and in organized social events and group attendance at lectures.
developing useful strategies for continuing post-course learn- Concerning the subjects students discussed in the networks,
ing. Moreover, the spirit of the group was participative, highly we can conclude that all subjects were treated. Technical, pro-
productive, and critical with regard to technology use. fessional, academic and even juridical questions were discussed
We used four different information-gathering instruments dur- on Facebook. Those conversations that would normally arise on
ing the study. A map of tools was drawn up to see which social Moodle –as they concerned specific subject matter and issues–
tools students used and for what purposes; a student ques- in this case began on the network.
tionnaire was designed to determine whether the role of the Outside the Moodle classroom, students engaged in three types
tools changed during the course and if students were aware of of exchange. Mainly they exchanged information resources, but
what they had learned through them; a content analysis of the they also solved academic, technological and course content
messages they produced was made in order to categorize the problems. Also they shared new ideas, for example projects
nuclei of meaning and compare the perceptions verbalized in such as creating a newspaper or starting up a company.
the questionnaire with those expressed in the messages; finally
an interview with selected students was devised to determine While we expected that they would exchange personal reflec-
whether they were aware of what they had learned from the so- tions, these were scarce. They exchanged very few solutions
cial networks, how they assessed this, and to what extent they from or reflections on their own professional experience, tricks
transferred it to their working places. and strategies.
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Concerning the usefulness of what they had learned, students Acknowledgements
stated that their social-network-based learning was positively
We would like to thank the students on the first program of the
useful for transference to present or future workplaces. Thus,
IL3-UB Community Management & Social Media Postgraduate
they felt that the learning generated through using social tools
Course, and Haridian de Aysa, Carlos Roa and Antonio Martinez,
was useful in complementing course contents: for example they
for their willing and proactive work.
broadened and complemented their conceptual knowledge,
they engaged in personal and professional networking, and
they familiarized themselves with technologies they had not
previously used. Many of their responses suggested that the
students saw social network interactions as useful for their con-
tinuing development, as sources of information, and as spaces
for problem solving.
However, other questions arise. Despite stating that their learn-
ing from social web tools was useful for the workplace, students
were mainly referring here to conceptual learning. They did not
perceive this learning in terms of work skills, professional reflec-
tions or direct applicability at work. Thus we wonder whether
they were simply not aware of these latter aspects or whether
they had not learned anything in this respect.
Although our main conclusions would encourage us to use so-
cial tools as sites of both formal and informal learning, blending
these learning processes naturally outside the Moodle class-
room, several further questions emerge. Should we promote
informal learning, providing new tools for students to share
knowledge? Would providing these tools be enough to enrich
their experience? Or should we take a further step, and ac-
company students’ informal learning processes with making
the skills acquired explicit? This would help students to make
the most of their informal learning processes, but would also
require us to define intentional processes of informal learning,
thereby establishing a closer bond between formal and informal
learning.
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