Social Networking Questions
From Horizon Project
[edit] The 2007 Horizon Report: Toward a Research Agenda
The annual Horizon Report, a collaboration between the New Media Consortium (NMC) and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI), highlights six technologies that the underlying research suggests will become very important to higher education over the next one to five years. A central focus of the discussion of each technology is its relevance for teaching, learning, and creative expression.
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With the release of the fourth edition in this annual series, the NMC is undertaking for the first time a concerted, international effort to describe a research agenda based on the six practices and technologies featured in the 2007 edition of the Horizon Report. You are invited to participate in this process, contribute to the discussion, and help shape directions for future research in these topics across higher education.
This effort reflects and embodies the topic of new scholarship, featured in the 2007 Report and also the subject of a major NMC focus area initiative. The completed research agenda is designed to encourage a deeper level of understanding around each of the topics in the Report.
The results from this effort were published in October 2007 as the Horizon Project Call for Scholarship. Scroll down to see some of the ideas that were provided in support of the Horizon Research Agenda.
[edit] What are the missing pieces for Social Networking to be implemented in higher education?
- Funding
- Successful adoption by faculty
- Standards, are they needed? What should they be?
- The student social life is well aligned to the capabilities of social networking tools. The academic side of the "house" lacks the right kind of tools that would connect the academic and social lives of students.
- Faculty adoption, under-appreciation by faculty of its value.
- Creating "closed networks" to keep the focus topical.
- Faculty lack of understanding, how to safeguard privacy.
[edit] What kind of research would you like to see around this topic?
- How can they be made effective in learning environments? Do the benefits justify immediate investment? How do these skills/tools improve the workforce?
- I question how does this improve learning? I also think that we lack the innovation in software that gave rise to most of the social networking tools such as Facebook.
- Assessment questions
- How to de-compartmentalize private lives from classroom authority?
- What are the goals for learning how to assess them? How can you effectively use that trusted network without violation of personal space?
- How can they be made effective in learning environments? Do the benefits justify immediate investment? How do these skills/tools improve the workforce?
[edit] What are the learning implications of Social Networking?
- Improved collaboration and teamwork skills? Faster communication and increased rates of adoption of content related media.
- We do not know this fully. Which is why we need to do research.
- Further any topic, wide communication issues, creativity.
- Collaboration
- You are meeting where they are; Collaborative environment/constructive; It translates to life-long learning
