Abstract

This article identifies the disconnect between workplace demands and university teaching. It highlights the importance of providing faculty development related to connected teaching and the role of the instructional designer to assist faculty with the integration of social media tools in their courses in a pedagogically appropriate way. Examples from practice include connected learning utilizing social media within online higher education courses and programs. Using the theory of connectivism, and the idea of connected learning, the article outlines possibilities to engage and support adjunct and distance faculty to embrace social media and networks.

Notes

Originally published in Revista de Universidad y Sociedad del Conocimiento, v.8 no.1 (2011), pp. 217-232. http://rusc.uoc.edu/ojs/index.php/rusc/article/view/v8n1-rochefort-richmond/v8n1-rochefortrichmond-eng

Keywords

connected learning, connectivism, faculty development, social media, social networking

Disciplines

Instructional Media Design

Publisher

Universitat Oberta de Catalunya

Publication Date

1-2011

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Creative Commons, some rights reserved. "The texts published in this journal are – unless indicated otherwise – covered by the Creative Commons Spain Attribution 3.0 licence. You may copy, distribute, transmit and adapt the work, provided you attribute it (authorship, journal name, publisher) in the manner specified by the author(s) or licensor(s). The full text of the licence can be consulted here: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/deed.en."

Rights Holder

© Beth Rochefort and Nancy Richmond


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