I've teamed up again with my writing partner, Dr. Mercedes Fisher, to take a deeper look at how designing for social spaces can help foster a deeper sense of community among students, teachers and the course content.
I'm pleased to announce that our book chapter, How Social Design Influences Student Retention and Self-Motivation in Online Learning Environments, has been published in Social Media and the New Academic Environment.
But beyond the classroom, these best practices can be integrated into any online community, forum discussion or informal online education environment.
As
web applications play a vital role in our society, social media has
emerged as an important tool in the creation and exchange of
user-generated content and social interaction. The benefits of these
services have entered in the educational areas to become new means by
which scholars communicate, collaborate and teach.
Social Media and the New Academic Environment: Pedagogical Challenges
provides relevant theoretical frameworks and the latest research on
social media the challenges in the educational context.
This book is
essential for professionals aiming to improve their understanding of
social media at different levels of education as well as researchers in
the fields of e-learning, educational science and information and
communication sciences and much more.
