Leveraging social media to support collaborative e-learning

Abstract

The advent of social media has spawned a surge of open-source, user-created intelligence available through online media such as blogs, wikis and social networks. This session will outline reflections on and work towards harnessing the power of social media for instructional purposes by incorporating empirically-derived instructional design principles to scaffold their use. It specifically addresses the current and potential uses of social media in a variety of formal and informal learning contexts. The session will include examples for applying “traditional” best practices for implementing instructionally-enhanced social media applications for collaborative e-Learning.