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Social Media: what, when, how
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Drawing from a blend of academic research and real-world campaigns, CUnet's social media strategist, Jeff Berg, will discuss how social media can play a key role throughout the school selection and application process and provide attendees with practical tactics to implement in their social media strategies today.
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Using social media to support learning in higher educationSue Beckingham
My keynote presentation considers how social media and digital technologies can be utilised effectively to enhance both informal and formal learning. Drawing upon the 5C Framework (Nerantzi and Beckingham 2014) I will share examples of how social media is used to connect, communicate, curate, collaborate and create; and through a student-staff partnership called ‘SMASH’ (Social Media for Academic Studies at Hallam) how with my students we have explored how social media can be used for ‘learning activities’ within and beyond the classroom, to ‘organise learning’ using relevant social media tools to curate and organise information, and the importance of ‘showcasing learning’ to enable students to openly share outcomes and projects.
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Presented at the Technology Knowledge and Society Conference, 2012, UCLA.
We engaged in a year long campus conversation on emerging technologies and their impact on the University. Throughout higher education, there is a growing recognition that new technologies have the potential to usher in dramatic change. The UWM's Digital Future planning initiative presented an opportunity for us to proactively plan for this future as opposed to being in a reactive position with respect to coming changes.
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Abstract
Tanya Joosten, author of Social Media for Educators, will share guidance on how you can effectively use social media in your course to 1.) provide better support for students through amplified communication, 2.) curate and/or create rich and current content to increase student satisfaction, and 3.) develop greater opportunities for interactivity and feedback to improve student learning. Specifically, attendees will design a learning module using backwards design while considering and taking advantage of the characteristics and functionality of social media. We will consider how social media can assist us in providing our students an experience that facilitates multiple technological literacies to prepare them for professional life.
Troy University, Invited Keynote: Understanding Online Students and LearningTanya Joosten
More at: http://trojan.troy.edu/etroy/colloquium/speakers.html
Session available at: https://troy.blackboard.com/webapps/bb-collaborate-bb_bb60/launchSession/guest?uid=dcb2a668-ea0c-4402-92f3-6733f30dc686
Keynote: Emerging Social Trends: Strategies and Best Practices for Teaching a...Tanya Joosten
Keynote: Emerging Social Trends: Strategies and Best Practices for Teaching and Learning
Dr. Tanya Joosten
Presented at Transformative Teaching and Technology Conference at St. Norbert College.
June 2, 2015
http://www.snc.edu/it/t3/2015/
Getting started with blended, a presentation for NMSUTanya Joosten
Through an examination of the ten basic questions of blended course redesign, participants will reconceive their traditional face-to-face courses for blended teaching and learning. Participants will follow backwards design principles to design a course module, and will learn techniques for integrating face-to-face and online work, and apply them to their own courses. For experienced teachers, this workshop provides a new approach to design a course in order to overcome "course and a half" syndrome and better manage your workload.
Friday, November 14th, 8:30am-11:30am
“Promoting student access and success through research”Tanya Joosten
Presented at the University of Nebraska WorldWide Innovation in Pedagogy and Technology Conference
Tanya Joosten will share the research agenda in the establishment of the National Research Center for Distance Education and Technological Advancement (DETA) funded by the U.S. Department of Education, Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education. DETA seeks to foster student access and success through evidence-based, cross-institutional online learning practices and technologies. Specifically, DETA looks to identify and evaluate effective course and institutional practices in online learning, including competency-based education, for underrepresented populations through rigorous research. The presentation will share DETA's purpose and research agenda, proposed research model for distance education, and opportunities for community engagement, including funding to conduct cross-institutional research.
ENSURING QUALITY AND DETERMINING EFFECTIVENESS, ELI Focus SessionTanya Joosten
As many institutions have invested in faculty development programming and understand that it is pivotal to the success of innovation in course designs and academic programming, there is a need to ensure that the products resulting from these efforts are meeting institutional standards of quality for student learning and other outcomes. We have seen an array of mediated forms of learning (hybrid, blended, flipped, online, self-paced, competency-based, MOOCs, and more) being diffused across campuses and systems, and many of us have been asked to provide evidence of the effectiveness of our faculty development programming to ensure the quality of classes and programs. Administrators are looking for an ROI in faculty development as we are seeing decreases in funding, enrollments, and budgets. This presentation will share an approach to ensuring quality and evaluating the effectiveness of faculty development, including the sharing of resources.
Outcomes: Learn about a life cycle of ensuring quality in faculty development * Identify steps in a backward-design approach to evaluating the effectiveness of faculty development * Share potential resources to use in future efforts
Tuesday, Apr 1st, 2014, 12:15 PM - 12:40 PM, Eastern Time
Emerging Social Trends: Decisions, Decisions Tanya Joosten
Presented at Sloan-C Emerging Tech, #et4online, on April 10th, 2014
Tanya Joosten (University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, USA)
@tjoosten
Session Information
April 10, 2014 - 3:30pm
Track: Open Education
Major Emphasis of Presentation: Applied Use (technology or pedagogy)
Institutional Level: Multiple
Audience Level: All
Session Type: Featured Session
Location: Lone Star C3
Session Duration: 50 Minutes
Session: Information Session 7
Virtual Session
Abstract
Higher education is undergoing a rapid transformation due to changes in societal interests and values. As educators, we must be responsive to these changes and look to develop strategies to best meet the needs of our students inside and outside of the classroom.
A Workshop: Promoting Student Access and Success Through ResearchTanya Joosten
Promoting Student Access and Success Through Research
July 7, 2015 - 8:30am
Lead Presenter: Tanya Joosten (University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, USA)
Track: Blended Models & Course Design
Interactive Workshop - 210 minutes
Location: Governor's Square 14
Virtual Session
Session Duration: 210 Minutes
Workshop Session 1 & 2 (combined)
Abstract:
Participate in the development of a research model to support the National DETA Research Center funded by the U.S. Department of Education.
Extended Abstract
Come help us develop a research model to facilitate cross institutional research on blended instruction. The future of blended learning should be driven by research-based instructional and institutional interventions as the result of cross institutional research impacting access, learning effectiveness, and student satisfaction.
To give you a little background, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee will share their efforts in the establishment of the National Research Center for Distance Education and Technological Advancement (DETA) funded by the U.S. Department of Education, Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education. They seek to foster student access and success through evidence-based, cross-institutional online learning practices and technologies. Specifically, DETA looks to identify and evaluate effective course and institutional practices in blended and online learning, including competency-based education, for underrepresented populations through rigorous research.
This workshop looks to engage the blended learning community in assisting of the development of DETA's research agenda, including a research model for distance education and research toolkits that can be used by institutions across the country. Through collaborative group discussions, this workshop will look for participants to brainstorm and prioritize ideas around defining student success, identifying key research questions to drive future research, development of shared measures to be gathered by different institutions, creation of instrumentation, and more. The outcomes of this workshop will inform research conducted in 2016. Further, opportunities for community engagement, including funding to conduct cross-institutional research, will be discussed.
For more information on our efforts thus, see http://uwm.edu/deta/summit.
Come be a part of this exciting initiative!
Promoting Student Access and Success Through ResearchTanya Joosten
October 16, 2015 - 10:45am
Lead Presenter: Tanya Joosten (University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, USA)
Diane Reddy (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA)
Track: Student Services and Learner Support
Featured Session
Location: Southern Hemisphere II
Session: Concurrent Session 10
Session Duration: 45 Minutes
Virtual Session
Abstract:
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee discusses promoting access and success of distance education students through research efforts. They will share their agenda in the establishment of the National Research Center for Distance Education and Technological Advancement (DETA) funded by the U.S. Department of Education, Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education.
Determining the Effectiveness of Your Faculty Development ProgramTanya Joosten
Date: March 17, 2014
Time: 1:00–4:00 p.m. ET (UTC-4) convert to your time zone; Runs three hours.
Malcolm Brown and Veronica Diaz will moderate this online seminar with Tanya Joosten, Dylan Barth, and Nicole Weber from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.
As the demand for blended and online learning opportunities increases, so does the need to ensure the quality of online education through faculty development programming. And with the increase in the diffusion of blended and online programming across higher education institutions, stakeholders are looking for ways to ensure the quality of the student experience and better understand the impact on student outcomes. Recently, many of us have been asked to provide evidence of the effectiveness of our faculty development programming: administrators are looking for a return on investment in faculty development to ensure quality in blended and online programming, as we are seeing decreases in state funding and enrollments, which leads to cut budgets. In order to for us to determine the effectiveness of our programming using a backwards design approach, we need to first understand what is a good online or blended course as well as what competencies are required of faculty to teach blended and online courses and how those can be best facilitated in a faculty development program. Then we can consider how to evaluate the impact on student outcomes.
This workshop will offer a collaborative and interactive opportunity to connect with colleagues to consider and construct how the effectiveness of faculty development programming can be determined and disseminated. A model of evaluation for a faculty development program will be shared.
Learning Objectives
By actively participating in this seminar, attendees will be able to:
Identify the characteristics of a good blended and online course, including the pedagogical model
Determine what elements and formats should be considered in designing a faculty development program
Share strategies for evaluating the effectiveness of your faculty development program at the course, program, and institutional levels from multiple perspectives, including students, colleagues, researchers, and administration
Understand how these steps fit into a model of evaluation for learning technologies and pedagogical innovation
Presentations, Day 1, by Tanya Joosten and Amy Mangrich on Blended Learning for the 1st Annual eLearning Conference in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Topics include discussions, assessment, content delivery, and more. Course demonstrations included as well.
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Harnessing Technology for one’s own Good: Professional Learning Networks in S...Laurel Hitchcock
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The aim of the workshop was to consider ways in which academics engage with social media to enhance student and staff education and research experience. The focus will be to facilitate discussions towards an expected output with a set of generic enablers and inhibiters for adoption of social media in academic collaboration.
This presentation is part of a related blog post that provides an overview of the event: http://bit.ly/1cCgM1J
For further details of the HEA's work on active and experiential learning in the Social Sciences, please see: http://bit.ly/17NwgKX
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9. Tips for completing your bio
• Upload a picture of yourself, true
representation
• Follow the social media culture
• Focus on potential common interests
• Identify your educational institution
• Be professional, yet personal
12. Tweeting: Introduce yourself
I’m Tanya Joosten from University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, teach
communication, help other faculty use technology #WLI12
16. Others ways to network
• Conference hashtags (#eli13, #edu12)
• Join live sessions (#edchat, #sachat)
• Review campus twitter accounts and hasthags
(@uwm, #iamuwm)
17. Tips to developing a network
• Update social media profiles to include an
image and a bio appropriate for the social
media.
• Connect with colleagues through conference
or professional group hashtags.
• Identify useful or influential colleagues and
review to who they are connected.
• Participate in your educational institution’s
social media accounts.
20. • According to a survey by Joosten (2009), students
reported that they need good (67%) and
frequent communication (90%) with
their instructor and good communication
with their classmates (75%). They also reported
that they need to feel connected to
learn (80%) (http://tinyurl.com/yafu8qz).
22. • According to PEW Internet study, “Teens who
participated in focus groups for this study said that
they view emailas something you use
to talk to ‘old people,’ institutions, or to
send complex instructions to large groups “
(http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2005/Teens-
and-Technology.aspx?r=1).
24. • According to Bulik (July 8th, 2009) “…They go
to
social networking sites 5 days per
week and check in 4 times a day for
a total of an hour per day” (para 7).
• According to PEW Internet study, “…Nearly
three-quarters (72%) of online 18-29
year olds use these sites–similar to the
rate among teens–with 45% doing so on a typical
day” (http://tinyurl.com/33hynyx).
26. • According to Joosten (2009), 71%
of
students want to receive text
messages about their class
(http://tinyurl.com/yafu8qz).
• According to PEW Interent, “the typical
American teen sends
and receives 50
or more messages per day, or
1,500 per month.”
42. Benefits
• Increases interactions between instructors and students
• Enhances communication
• Builds feelings of connectedness
• Overcomes the challenges of students at a distance or in remote locations
• Facilitates providing timely student feedback
• Helps students stay organized
• Increases student performance
• Provides a medium for instructors enhance their identity and encourage
students
• Results in high levels of satisfaction of instructors and students
48. YouTube alternatives
Content & Publication Educational Content
• SchoolTube • MIT World
• TeacherTube • PBS.org
• Vimeo • TED
• YouTube.EDU
And many more!
49. Benefits
• Improving student learning
• Helps instructors manage their workload
• Enhances 21st century literacy skills for
instructors and students
• Facilitates the use of rich and current content
• Enhances student engagement
51. 5 questions to consider
• What is the pedagogical need?
• How will the selected social media help meet that need?
• What aspects of the learning process should be
improved?
• What learning outcomes can be better achieved through
the use of the selected social media over other
technologies?
• What is the expected behavior of students within the
selected social media?
52. What is your pedagogical need?
• Increase communication and encourage
contact
• Engage students through rich, current media
• Gather and provide feedback in the classroom
• Create a cooperative and collaborative
learning opportunities
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Can use browser or mobile appWhat is a hashtagWhy use hashtags
ONLINE COUORSES: POOR COMMUNICATIONAs Metts (2003) reported that “Over half (52%) said the worst part of the online experience was poor communication. And half of those (26% of the total) said the problem was communicating with their instructors” (para 16). STUDENTS NEED GOOD COMMUNICATION According to a survey by Joosten (2009), students reported that they need good (67%) and frequent communication (90%) with their instructor and good communication with their classmates (75%). They also reported that they need to feel connected to learn (80%) (see http://tinyurl.com/yafu8qz). Connecting with students and building connections amongst students allows us to create learning communities. Community and peer networks increases students motivation to perform and provides them with resources to help do better in class.
D2L only pushes down e-mail, no discussion notifications for posts, no mobile notifications, etc.STUDENTS DON’T CHECK EMAILcPEW Study – don’t check email??As Shannon from Seton Hall Law School stated in ELI Mobile session the first week in March, they view e-mail as old technology or for old people.
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