Higher Education Teaching and Learning

1. SOCIAL MEDIA
in higher education
Zarina M. Charlesworth & Natalie B. Sarrasin // May 2014
Zarina.charlesworth@heg-arc.ch / natalie.sarrasin@hevs.ch
HES-SO, University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Western Switzerland

2. Innovative Learningscapes
Higher Education Teaching and Learning (HETL) conference 2014
Anchorage, Alaska
May 31st-June 2nd

3. Zimmerman
(2000)
Dabbagh and Kitsantas
(2012)
Charlesworth and Sarrasin
(2014)
Phase Stage Level
1
Forethought
Personal information
management Organization and searching
2 Performance or
volitional control
Social interaction and
collaboration Information exchange
3 Self-reflection Information aggregation and
management
Co-creation and co-
construction of knowledge
Table 1: Framework comparison (Charlesworth & Sarrasin, 2014)

4. Proposed model for social media use in the co-construction of knowledge
(Charlesworth and Sarrasin 2014)

6. Learningscape
Based on Selwyn (2011)
1. Learner type –> seeing things differently
2. Learning type –> doing things differently
3. HE provision –> living things differently

7. 1. Learner type
Seeing things differently
PERSONAL FACTORS

8. Figure 2 : Mean student (n=179) response to the question :
the use of social media in the classroom allows for…

9. 2. Learning type
Doing things differently
BEHAVIORAL FACTORS

10. Figure 3 : Mean student (n=179) usage rate of social media
for communication with students and faculty

11. Figure 4 : Mean student (n=179) usage rate of social media for year 1 Marketing class

12. 3. HE provision
Living things differently
ENVIRONMENTAL
FACTORS

13. 3. HE provision
UAS Western Swizterland :
- Class attendance is mandatory
- Computer access is allowed during the class
- Classrooms are all wifi enabled
- Moodle is the official LMS

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