Social Media in the Classroom: Challenges and Strategies in Faculty Development
Keywords:
faculty development, social media, training, mobile learningAbstract
Abilene Christian University began developing a campus wide mobile learning program in 2008, providing a context of campus saturation by 2010. The reimagining of teaching and learning prompted by this initiative led to the use of mobile learning and to the introduction of social media components into the learning context. This paper will discuss the promise and challenges of social media in the classroom, explore the use of social media in higher education, and discuss the strategies that the Adams Center for Teaching and Learning has used in order to provide faculty development training for the use of social media within both traditional and non-traditional learning environments.
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Arnold, N. & Paulus, T. (2010). Using a social networking site for experiential learning: Appropriating, lurking, modeling and community building. The Internet and Higher Education, 13, 188-196.
Baldridge, S. & McAdams, A. (2012). Remote teaching: Using mobile devices to teach outside of the classroom walls. ACU Mobile Learning Research Documents. Retrieved from http://www.acu.edu/technology/mobilelearning/documents/research/baldridge/baldridge-ml-paper-11-12.pdf
Bloom, B., Englehart, M. Furst, E., Hill, W., & Krathwohl, D. (1956). Taxonomy of educational objectives: The classification of educational goals. Handbook I: Cognitive domain. New York, Toronto: Longmans, Green.
Churchill, D. (2009). Educational application of Web 2.0: Using blogs to support teaching and learning. British Journal of Education Technology, 40, 179-183.
Dehlstrom, E., deBoor, T., Grunwald, P. & Vockley, M. (2011). The ECARE National Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology, CO: EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research. Available from http://www.educause.edu/ecare.
Fink, L. D. (2003). Creating Significant Learning Experiences: An integrated approach to designing college courses. New York, NY: Jossey-Bass.
Gay, G., Rieger, R. & Bennington, T. (2002). Using mobile computing to enhance field study. In T. Koschmann, R. Hall, & N. Miyake (Eds.), CSCL2: Carrying forward the conversation (pp.507-528). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Hamm, S., Saltsman, G., Jones, B., Baldridge, S. & Perkins, S. (2013). A Mobile Pedagogy Approach for Transforming Learners and Faculty. Zane Berge & Lin Muilenburg (Eds.), Handbook of Mobile Education, New York, NY: Routledge.
Hamm, S., Drysdale, J., & Moore, D. (2013). An Evidence-based Approach to Mobile Learning Integration. Christian Penny, Douglas McConatha, Jordan Schugar, & David Bolton (Eds.), Mobile Pedagogy and Perspectives on Teaching and Learning. Hershey, PA: IGI Global.
Kaplan, A.M. & Haenlein, M. (2010). Users of the world, unite! The challenges and opportunities of social media. Business Horizons, 53, 59-68.
Kukulska-Hulme, A. (2012). How should the higher education workforce adapt to advancements in technology for teaching and learning? Internet and Higher Education, 15, 247-254.
Pan, S.C. & Franklin, T. (2012). In-service teachers’ self-efficacy, professional development, and Web 2.0 tools for integration. New Horizons in Education, 50, 28-40.
Park, Y. (2011). A pedagogical framework for mobile learning: Categorizing educational applications of mobile technologies into four types. International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 12.2, 79-102.
Perkins, S. & Saltsman, G. (2010). Mobile learning at Abilene Christian University: Successes, challenges, and results from year one. Journal of the Research Center for Educational Technology, 6, 47-54.
Peters, K. (2007). M-Learning: Positing educators for a mobile, connected future. International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 8, 1-17.
Top, E. (2012). Blogging as a social medium in undergraduate courses: Sense of community best predictor of perceived learning. Internet and Higher Education, 15, 24-28.
Top, E., Yukselturk, F. & Inan, F.A. (2010). Reconsidering usage of blogging in preservice teacher education courses. Internet and Higher Education, 13, 214-217.
Tunks, K.W. (2012). An introduction and guide to enhancing online instruction with Web 2.0 tools. Journal of Education Online, 9.
Wu, W., Wu, Y., Chen, C., Kao, H., Lin, C., Huang, S. (2012). Review of trends form mobile learning studies: A metaanalysis. Computer and Education, 59, 817-827.
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