E-Learning And Social Networking Handbook:
Resources For Higher Education
Author: Robin Mason, Frank Rennie
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Book: E-Learning And Social Networking
Handbook: Resources For Higher
Education
Author: Robin Mason, Frank Rennie
ISBN: 0415426073
ISBN-13: 9780415426077
, 978-0415426077
Binding: Paperback
Publishing Date: Apr 2008
Publisher: Routledge
Number of Pages: 194
Language: English
Overview
• This book aims to provide the reader with enough background information
to appreciate the value of social networking, especially for distributed
education. Through highlighting the most relevant, interesting, and
challenging aspects of e-Learning the book provides practical advice for
using social networking tools in course design. This volume covers the
following issues of course design using social networking:
*key issues of social networking as an educational technique
*designing for a distributed environment
*strengths and weaknesses of delivering content in various formats: text,
audio and video
*specific media: blogging, wikis, podcasting, webcasting
*constraints on course design
*implementation, evaluation, induction and training
Contents
• Chapter1 : Social Networking as an Educational
Tool
• Chapter2 : Designing for a Distributed
Environment
• Chapter3 : Selecting the Media Palette
• Chapter4 : The Tools in Practice
• Chapter5 : Constraints on Course Design
• Chapter6 : Evaluating Course Designs and
Understanding Its Implications
Chapter1 : Social Networking as
an Educational Tool
• Sets the use of social networking in context,not as a
revolutionary paradigm shift, but as an evolutionary
development of online practices. It also considers existing
research and the ways in which research is changing in this
area
Chapter1 : Social Networking as
an Educational Tool
• What are the tools?
• "Web 2.0" is commonly associated with web applications that
facilitate interactive information sharing, interoperability,
user-centered design,and collaboration on the World Wide
Web. A Web 2.0 site allows its users to interact with each
other as contributors to the website's content, in contrast to
websites where users are limited to the passive viewing of
information that is provided to them.
Chapter1 : Social Networking as
an Educational Tool
• Example of social software with relevance to
education are :
– Wikipedia
– Folksonomy sites such as del.icio.us and Flickr
– Blogging
– Podcasting
– E-portfolios
– Real-time audio
Social Network Map
Chapter2 : Designing for a Distributed Environment
• Addresses the detailed issues of distributed environments and
the implications for course design.
Chapter2 : Designing for a Distributed Environment
• The purposes of this chapter,we assume the following
properties define distributed learning :
– The components of the course are distributed across
multiple media and this tends to imply a certain amount of
choice of media as well as a tendency towards a studentcentred learning approach
– Distributed learning can be used to augment traditional
class-room-base courses, to deliver distance education
courses or to create wholly online courses.
– Providing flexibility for students in terms of time or
location of study is one key aim of the pedagogy of
distributed learning.
Chapter2 : Designing for a Distributed Environment
Distributed Learning
Distance Education
E-Learning
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Blended Learning
Figure : The relationship of e-learning to distributed learning
Chapter3 : Selecting the Media Palette
• Focuses on the media of text, audio, images, and video, and
considers how best to use these in different contexts.
Chapter3 : Selecting the Media Palette
Table : Examples of the Application of Distributed Media to Learning Activities
Chapter4 : The Tools in Practice
• Is by far the longest chapter as it examines nearly 20 different
tools that are used in educational contexts. For each tool,
advantages and disadvantages are listed, and a case study of
its use in practice is described
Chapter4 : The Tools in Practice
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The following is a list of the tools :
• Video messaging
Blogs
• E-books
Wikis
• Instant messaging
Podcasts
• Skype
E-portfolios
• Games
Social networking
• Mashups
Social bookmarking
• Mobile Learning
Photo sharing
• RSS feeds
Second Life
• YouTube
Online forums
• audiographics
Chapter5 : Constraints on Course Design
• Looks at limitations and problems in using social networking
from three perspective : student, faculty and institutions.
Chapter6 : Evaluating Course Designs and
Understanding Its Implications
• Presents a case for Emergent Design as more appropriate
approach to course design than traditional top-down models.
More Information
Top 10 Social Network …Hit!!
• 1. MySpace.com
2. FaceBook.com
3. Orkut.com
4. Hi5.com
5. Vkontakte.ru
6. Friendster.com
7. SkyRock.com
8. PerfSpot.com
9. Bebo.com
10. Studivz.net
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