The document discusses the interplay between learning management systems (LMS) like D2L and social media in education, questioning their sufficiency for student-centered, inquiry-based classes. It outlines objectives for a discussion on their respective pros and cons, suggesting a potential complementary relationship between LMS and social media. The author emphasizes the challenges in integrating these technologies due to time and support constraints, while also highlighting the evolving educational landscape influenced by social media and technology.

1. LMS (D2L) and Social Media (SM):
friends or foes?...
Plamen Miltenoff, Ph.D., MLIS
SCSU
2015 Minnesota D2L Ignite Conference
April 24, 2015
http://www.slideshare.net/aidemoreto/lms-d2l-and-social-media

2. Objectives and Goals for this discussion:
• Generate ideas
• Test established beliefs
• Decisions and solutions are
beyond the scope of this
discussion.

3. 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?

4. 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.

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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.

14. 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

15. 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?

16. 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

17. 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/

18. 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

19. 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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20. • IMS blog: http://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/SCSUtechinstruc
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/InforMediaServices?ref=hl
• pmiltenoff@stcloudstate.edu
• http://web.stcloudstate.edu/pmiltenoff/faculty/
Plamen Miltenoff, Ph.D., MLIS
Professor, MC 204J, Miller Center, SCSU
• 320-308-3072