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My presentation at the INTED 2013 Conference about my cases in my PhD

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Different  Approaches  to  Experimen3ng  with  Social  Media  in  

Higher  Educa3on?    -­‐  introduc3on  to  my  Ph.D.  en3tled  ”The  Learning  Poten3als  using  Web  

2.0  in  a  PBL  approach”  

MA,  PhD  Candidate  Lillian  Buus  -­‐  lillian@hum.aau.dk  E-­‐Learning  Lab  –  Center  for  User  Driven  Innova3on  Learning  and  Design  (www.ell.aau.dk)  Dept.  of  Communica3on  and  Psychology,  Aalborg  University  

Objec3ve  for  my  research  

•  How  can  and  will  the  integra3on  of  social  media  and  web  2.0  ac3vi3es  and  tool  implicate  the  teaching  and  learning  process  in  a  problem  based  learning  environment  – Focusing  on  the  teachers  integra(on  and  use  of  web  2.0  ac(vi(es  and  tools  in  their  teaching  prac3ce  

– Taking  point  of  departure  in  the  PBL  model  at  Aalborg  University  

Point  of  departure…  

•  Conducted  a  kick-­‐off  workshop  in  April  2011  –  Using  a  Collabora3ve  E-­‐learning  Design  Method  (CoED)    –  12  teachers  signed-­‐up  but  only  7  par3cipated  (voluntarily)    

Original  source:    the  Collabora(ve  E-­‐learning  Design  method  (CoED)    (Georgsen  &  Nyvang,  2007)    My  method  further  described  in:    Scaffolding  Teachers  Integrate  Social  Media  Into  a  Problem‑Based  Learning  Approach?  (Buus,  2012  

The  process…    

• Kick-­‐off    • Presen3ng  “Web  2.0  /  Social  Media”  

• Discus  pedagogical  values  • Make  a  “Learning  design”  • Ac3vi3es,  Resources,  Infrastructure  

Design  workshop  

• Follow  up  on  the  design  –  Support  • Individual  sessions  –  secng  up  the  web  2.0  ac3vity  

• Group  sessions/introduc3ons  • Zotero  • Eitherpad  • Prezi  • Etc.    

Follow-­‐up  sessions  

• Follow  the  process  and  ac3vi3es  going  on  

• Interview  • Teachers    • Students  • only  3-­‐4  students  • Representa3ves  from  each  course    

• Survey    • Students  –  before  and  aher  the  courses  

Interview  /  Survey  

Emerged  from  the  workshop…  •  Have  been  following  3  teachers  integra3ng  web  2.0  ac3vi3es  supported  by  

social  media  or  ICT    •  3  different  Cases:  

–  E-­‐Business  •  Unlimited  supervision  through  online  media  •  Autumn  2011  and  2012    

–  Law    •  Online  comments  and  dialog  ‘on  site’  during  lectures  •  Spring  2011  and  2012    

–  Psychology  •  Peer-­‐Group-­‐reflec3ons    •  Autumn  2011  

Case  1:  Unlimited  supervision  •  Inten3on:  Knowledge  exchange  between  students  and  between  students  and  supervisor  

•  Ask  methodological  and  theore3cal  ques3ons  in  rela3on  to  wri3ng  a  mini  project  

•  A  fellow  student  should  have  posted  before  comments  from  the  supervisor  

•  Danish  Company  Corpora3on  -­‐  Med24.dk    

•  Interna3onal  students    •  Different  educa3onal  background  (than  AAU/PBL)    •  Around  80  Students  -­‐  divided  in  groups  of  four  

•  Facebook  group  vs.  Moodle  forum  •  Facebook  group  -­‐  both  in  1.  itera3on  and  2.  itera3on  

Case  1  (2/3)  

•  Perspec3ves:  –  1.  itera3on  -­‐  primarily  prac3cal  dialog  -­‐  no  methodological  and  theore3cal  dialog  -­‐  no  other  possibili3es  for  supervision  •  Students  felt  the  presence  of  the  supervisor  (quick  response)    -­‐  some  commented  the  need  for  the  “expert”  (teacher)    

•  Missing  out  dialog  and  knowledge  exchange  among  students  –  How  to  gain  this?  

•  No  visible  change  in  marks  •  Focus  primarily  on  ones  own  group  process  

Case  1  (3/3)  

•  2.  itera3on  -­‐  theore3cal  and  methodological  ques3ons  -­‐  clarifying  ques3on  for  the  company  -­‐  good  dialog  among  students  – More  (extended)  communica3on  -­‐  more  dialog-­‐oriented  and  knowledge  exchanging  

– Posi3ve  feedback  from  students    •  concerning  the  presence  of  the  supervisor  -­‐  visibility  •  and  the  presence  of  the  Company  in  the  FB  group  

Case  2:  Online  comments  “on  site”  

•  Students  could  formulate  (theore3cal/methodological/understandings)  difficul3es  during  lectures  on  a  shared  plaoorm    

•  1.  itera3on  -­‐  Eitherpad  /  2.  itera3on  -­‐  Facebook  group  •  Eitherpad  gave  room  for  anonymity  vs.  Facebook  where  students  have  an  iden3ty  •  Teacher  made  a  “professional-­‐profile’  

•  Around  200  students  a  class  

Case  2  (2/2)  

•  Perspec3ves:  – Good  dialog  (especially  in  2.  itera3on)  •  use  of  Facebook  expanded  the  inten3ons  

– More  dialog  and  nego3a3on  between  students  and  follow  up  comments  from  the  teacher  

– Giving  the  teacher  an  impression  of  the  difficult  parts  •  Large  class  =  many  data  

– More  engagement  and  ac3vity  among  students  

Case  3:  Peer-­‐group  reflec3ons    

•  Inten3on  to  help  students  in  tying  theore3cal  perspec3ves  to  concrete  cases  and  promote  reflec3ons  and  discussions  

•  Involving  around  140  students    – divided  into  two  teams  for  lectures  – one  group  for  the  final  workshop  

•  Integra3ng  “a  blog”  -­‐  a  Moodle  forum  – Theore3cal  discussions  in  small  groups  and  post  comments  in  the  blog    

Case  3  (2/2)  

•  Perspec3ves:    – Focus  mostly  on  ones  own  groupwork  -­‐  not  good  at  commen3ng  others  

– Students  comments:    •  Good  for  exam  prepara3on  -­‐  having  all  in  wri3ng  

– Teacher  comments:    •  Changing  from  oral  to  wriren  ‘presenta3ons’  of  group  work  challenge  the  kind  of  evalua3on  done  on  the  group  work  during  lectures  

Future  work…    

•  Have  all  my  data  –  Interviews  with  teachers  –  Interac3on  data    

•  among  students    •  among  teachers  and  students  

–  Surveys  (from  students)    

•  Next  step  à    

Further  Analysis  =  more  wri3ng  J    

Mail:  lillian@hum.aau.dk      Twirer:  @lbuus      

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