A one day event at the Open University with Eric Stoller to develop a set of institutional action plan around embedding social media within formal contexts.

1. Embedding social media to
effectively support OU
learners
Will Woods

2. Aims for today
1. A better understanding of policy/strategy within
the OU learning context.
2. A plan for how we improve our practice around
use of social media
3. Definition around the benefits and constraints of
social media within OU context. i.e. How we
manage the risks.
4. A roadmap to achieving improvement.
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3. Aims of this session
I want to use this session
with Eric Stoller to
explore how much we
can take from existing
sources of knowledge
across the OU and
beyond to influence our
use of social media within
the curriculum and to
answer questions such
as… 3

4. Four Provocations
Do we need a social media
strategy for learning?
Provocation 1
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5. Four Provocations
How and when do we embed
social media practice within
our modules and across the
curriculum?
Provocation 2
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6. Four Provocations
What can we learn from
others?
Provocation 3
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7. Four Provocations
How can we use social media
to bridge the informal/formal
divide?
Provocation 4
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8. Over to Eric…
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