Reading Social Media and Learning Conversations

From our first edition of Dynamic Conversations: Learning Communities, Dr Mohamed Saeudy CMBE explores how social media can be used as an effective tool in learning and teaching.

This conversation aims to consider how social media could be used to support bookish practices during and across the Covid-19 conditions. It aims to explore some practical approaches to using Social Media in a satisfying and sustainable manner. I am looking forward to exploring hereafter opportunities for using social media across the covid-xix conditions to support the educatee experience.

My opinion on the dynamic conversation topic:

The ability of using social media during and across the Covid-19 pandemic became a topical contend. One of the most gimmicky topics in the HE sector is to understand the implications of Covid-xix pandemic for people's everyday lives.

This pandemic created new normal realities for the decision-making of educators, students, customers, managers, shareholders, lenders, suppliers, and employees.

A growing range of issues have a bearing on this new earth, including human wellbeing, remote learning, value for education, online didactics and increased expectations on HE institutions with regard to student satisfaction, staff wellbeing, and creating effective online communications.

In order to address these challenges, many universities are increasingly turning to offer short courses and online blended learning degrees. These degrees intended to assist academics and students to go more than involved with many social media platforms to build upwards effective online capabilities and bear their institutional communications.

The justification or rationale for this stance

In response to the growing recognition that universities must reply to the Covid-19 weather, a number of social media platforms take been used over the last year to guide and manage student learning at a different level.

These include using social media platforms in educational activity and learning and supporting student date. At that place are several benefits that could be achieved from using social media in education and learning such every bit exploring the leading edge and gimmicky topics and enhancing the digital pedagogy. Whereas, there are some challenges about the risks and toxic side of using social media. Furthermore, the General Data Protection Regulations presented another valid level of challenges that should be considered to control social media communications.

T he key questions for argue:

1. What are the principal social media platforms that could be used in teaching and learning in HE? And how do you use them?
2. What benefits can academics find in using social media in didactics and learning?
3. What are the chief roles of using social media in supporting Didactics for Sustainable Evolution?
4. How can you integrate social media into your curriculum blueprint and planning?
5. What are the principal limitations and challenges of using social media in education and learning?
6. How social media could assistance u.s.a. to build up online capabilities and competencies during the Covid 19 pandemic?

Recommended links:

A quick guide to managing organisational social media accounts
https://markcarrigan.net/2018/05/01/a-quick-guide-to-managing-institutional-social-media-accounts/

Call for Participants – Digital Inequality in Education: Pasts, Presents and Futures

How has the pandemic inverse cyberspace use in the Uk?

References

Balakrishnan, V., 2016. Primal determinants for intention to use social media for learning in college education institutions. Universal Access in the Information Society, Volume 16, pp. 289-301.

Crawford, J. et al., 2020. COVID-19: xx countries' higher education intra-period digital educational activity responses. Journal of Applied Learning and Pedagogy, 3(1).

Manca, S., 2020. Snapping, pinning, liking, or texting: Investigating social media in college education across Facebook. Internet and College Education, , Volume 44.

Niu, L., 2019. Using Facebook for bookish purposes: Current literature and directions for hereafter inquiry. Journal of Educational Computing Research, 56(8), pp. 1384-1406.

Purvis, A. J., Rodger, H. One thousand. & Beckingham, Due south., 2020. Experiences and perspectives of social media in learning and teaching in higher education. International Journal of Educational Research Open, Volume 1.

To read more submissions from the first edition of our Dynamic Conversations series and bring together the conversation, please click here.

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