Creating a Virtual Community: Using Social Media to Connect With Distance Education Students
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Presented at the 2010 Indiana College Network Coordinators Conference
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Creating a Virtual Community: Using Social Media to Connect With Distance Education Students
- 1. Creating a Virtual Community Using Social Media to Connect With Distance Education Students Indiana College Network Conference June 18, 2010 Anthony Juliano
- 2. Hello!
- 5. [and bad] Good news
- 6. “As more people have come online, the more online communication has become the norm. So it isn't thought of as a separate realm anymore, but as one that merges and overlaps with our daily activities.” - Caroline Haythornthwaite, Ph.D. University of Illinois
- 7. “College faculty have embraced social media and a majority have integrated some form of these tools into their teaching.” - Jeff Seaman, PhD., Babson Survey Research Group
- 9. Higher among faculty in the Humanities and Social Sciences than Mathematics, Science, Business and Economics
- 10. Older faculty (those teaching > 20 years) use of social networks is only slightly lower than that of younger peersSource: “Social Media in Higher Education,” The Babson Survey Research Group/New Marketing Labs/Pearson, May 2010
- 12. “Convenience is a key reason students enroll in distance learning courses. At times, jobs, schedules, location or family commitments can make it difficult to take a course on-campus.”- IPFW.edu
- 13. The key: use social media to serve as a resource to distance learners
- 16. 10 sites and tools to connect with distance learners
- 18. “You may not have thought about Blackboard as a social media tool, but it offers all the interactivity you can desire…”- The Web 2.0 in Education blog
- 23. “Blogs…give a kind of materiality to the classroom experience, a concrete nature that many students find comforting. The class blog is a place students can go to review important themes and get help from the professor and from each other.”- Christopher Conway, Ph.D.,University of Texas Austin
- 24. Potential blog topics Instructor as author – subject matter expertise DE staff as author – giving the institution a name/face Students as authors – conversations about what they’re learning
- 26. “I think they developed a sense of each other as people beyond the classroom…[It] also helped me [learn] a great deal about students lives—where they work, that one of them had Thanksgiving dinner with 50+ people. Now this type of supplementary material might not be attractive to all educators, I can definitely say that changed the classroom dynamics for the better.” - David Parry, Ph.D. University of Texas at Dallas
- 35. A community of high school and college students, educators, parents, and “subject enthusiasts”
- 36. Study guides and practice tests
- 37. Tutoring
- 43. Prepares students for the new job market
- 46. Align with their knowledge, skills, and preferences
- 47. Keep mindset in mind – mitigate distractions
- 49. Use 2-3 tools that best fit your topic/students
- 53. Questions?
- 54. Thanks! ajjuliano@gmail.com (260) 615.3426 If you enjoyed this presentation, please recommend me on