Using Public Social Networking for Online Learning

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Using Public Social Networking for Online
Learning

• Presented by Te-Wei Wang
• Assistant Professor, MIS Department

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Outline

• Motivation Three Things Lead me to design this
  course.
• Course Design Concept MIS424 End-User
  Development and Implementation
• Content Delivery
• Interactions
• Assessment
• Discussion Opportunities for used in other types
  of courses.

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The Missing Link

• The Susan Sharpe Story Why online teaching turn
  me off! (Washington Post, April 3, 2005)
• "Are you teaching online?"
• "No," she said stoutly. "I want to look my
  students right in the eyeball."

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My Observation

• Social Interaction is the missing component.
• The intimate relationship between Mentor and
  Pupil is either missing or degraded.
• Building Social back into online class.

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John Phillip Sousas Words

• These talking machines are going to ruin the
  artistic development of music in this country.
• When I was a boy in front of every house in the
  summer evenings. You would find young people
  singing the songs of the days or the old songs.
  Today, you hear these infernal machines going
  night and day.
• We will not have any vocal cord left. The vocal
  cords will be eliminated by a process of
  evolution as was the tail of the man when he came
  from the ape.

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What happened?

• RW ? RO
• Interaction ? One Person Broadcasting
• Creativity is sacrificed in the process.
• Internet came along.
• RW?RO?Remix
• User Contributed Content
• New form of creativity is formed.
• READ MY LIP

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Online Course Design Concept

• The Objective Social Interaction Before, During,
  and After an online class.
• Tools Web 2.0 Tools
• Method User Contributed Content

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Course Design
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Course Design Structure

• Learning Objectives
• Pedagogical design
• Technologies
• Assessments
• Results

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Learning Objectives

• Familiar with End-User Computing Technologies
• Students can collaborate with other students to
  complete a project.
• Learn In-Depth MIS knowledge

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Pedagogical Design

• Content Delivery
• Textbook Reading (Push)
• Podcast Lecture (Push)
• Student Contributed Video Podcast (Pull)
• Interaction
• Social Network Site
• Instant Message Service
• Elluminate Session
• Discussion Forum

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Technologies

• Social Network
• Facebook
• Instant Message
• Professors Portal with Meebo application
• iTunes U
• Wiki
• Blackboard
• Elluminate
• Google

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Assessment

• Weekly Quiz
• Discussion Assignment
• User Contributed Content Assignment
• Media Search Assignment
• Student Podcast Assignment
• Collaboration Assignment
• Program Group Assignment
• Group Discussion Assignment

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Potential Values

• Short Term
• Raise student interest
• Bring in richness in online communication
• Long Term
• Deeper and long memory on Learning
• Continue contact after end of the class
• Alumni relationship
• Facilitating Student career development

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Known Problems

• Some students are reluctant to use social network
  or any new technologies.
• The among of student contributed content
• Quality control (content filtering)
• Length of student contributed content
• Distraction
• Course Management
• Grading, Deadline control are not centralized in
  Blackboard
• Complains in collaboration projects

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Demo

• Meebo
• Facebook Wiki
• Student Contributed Podcast

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Questions Comments