Slides to accompany a talk given to the JIBS User Group at Birkbeck College, London on 22 July 2014

1. Learning with online
social networks
Professor Frank Rennie
Lews Castle College
University of the Highlands and Islands

2. The Main Issues
• What is social networking?
• What is it used for?
• How can it be used in education?
• Pros and Cons
• Why is this important?
• How does it impact upon individuals
and communities?

3. From Grainne Conole at www.slideshare.net/grainne
E-Pedagogies
A
Associative
Focus on individual
Learning through
association and
reinforcement
Constructivist
Building on prior
knowledge
Task-orientated
Situative
Learning through
social interaction
Learning in context
Connectivist
Learning in a networked
environment
E-training
Drill & practice
Mobile learning
Inquiry learning
Resource-based
Experiential Problem-
based
Role play
Reflective & dialogic
learning,
Personalised learning

4. Web 2.0
• Interactive rather than Broadcast
• Participative rather than a passive receptor
• Collaborative rather than a single author
– Wikis, Blogs, Video, Audio, Social Networks…..
• Attention rather than Information is premium
• Tests truth and its application
• Context in addition to Contents
• Personalised learning – multi-media etc.
http://www.freefoto.com/preview/01-17-2/Spiders-Web

5. 100’s of online social networks
http://kikolani.com/becoming-accessible-social-networking-social-media.html
Complex Adaptive Systems
Stability domains
Self-organisation
Complex system cycles

6. Hyper-interactivity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnQcCgS7aPQ

7. Networking
http://research.uow.edu.au/learningnetworks/seeing/snapp/index.html
It is the
connections
that are
important

8. The role of peer support
• Reference
• Reinforcement
• Recommendation
• Resource Co-creation

9. Communities of Inquiry
• Social Presence
– identification within a community with trusted
relationships
• Cognitive Presence
– constructing knowledge, discussing, confirming,
reflecting
• Teaching Presence
– a consistent pedagogical approach to facilitation
of the above to enable worthwhile leaning
experiences

10. Photograph sharing

11. Examples of OER

12. OER Course Mosaic

13. E-textbooks
• E-tips (e-textbook institutional publishing
services)
– Create and distribute two e-textbooks
– Supplementary website resources
– Investigate their use
– Document the production process
• Network the global academy
• Print on demand options

14. Opportunities for further study
Build on stability domains
Layer the nodes of resources

15. The Attention Economy

16. 18th Century - The Scottish Enlightenment
http://www.freefoto.com/preview/9909-08-2924/Edinburgh-Fringe-2009
Europe’s first public education system
The triumph of rational thinking

17. The New Enlightenment
OER
Open Access
Creative Commons
Crowd Sourcing

18. Key Points
• Open access to user-generated resources is
changing the way we use information
• Use the pedagogy to exploit the affordances of
the educational technology
• The learning process is more important than the
ability just to assimilate content
• Remain flexible to capitalise on innovation and
the unpredictability of complex adaptive
networks
• A key challenge is to learn to share the control of
the teaching/learning experience.

19. Networked learning (amazon.co.uk)

20. View this presentation again at
www.slideshare.net/frankrennie