The Usage of Social Networks In Educational Context

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The Usage of Social Networks In Educational
Context

• Sacide Güzin MAZMAN, Yasemin KOÇAK USLUEL
• Hacettepe University, Faculty of Education
  Department of Computer Education and
  Instructional Technology
• TURKIYE

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Problem

• Possible advantages of technology in educational
  context required the defining boundaries of
  formal and informal learning.

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Problem

• Increasing opportunity to ubiquitous learning by
  technological support has revealed a question
• How to discover the potential of individuals in
  the spontaneous environments such as social
  networks?

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Problem

• While social networks have been adopted and being
  used extensively all around the world, it is
  notable that they are not adopted in the
  educational field as much in other fields.

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Purpose of study
Proposing a new model that could determine
factors which effect adoption of social networks
to use in educational context.
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Social Networks in Educational Context

• A common space for
• Shared interests, needs and goals
• Collaboration
• Knowledge sharing
• Online and offline interaction
• Visual / Verbal communication

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Social Networks in Educational Context

• Support both the virtual and real social worlds.
• Solution to limitations of learning management
  systems (LMS) with social communication and
  personal profile tools.

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Social Networks in Educational Context

• Positive relations between students-teacher and
  students-students by creating more cordial
  environments.

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Social Networks in Educational Context

• Provide engaging two-way experiences for users,
  prosumers of the multimedia content
• ConsumerProducer
• Web-based multimedia and distribution tools
  incorporating
• Rich audio (Podcasting, Skype)
• Photo (Flickr)
• Video (vodcasting, YouTube, Stickam)
• Networking (Facebook, Myspace)

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Social Networks in Educational Context

• Need to expand vision of pedagogy that learners
  are
• Active participants
• Co-producers of content rather than passive
  consumers
• Learning is a process
• Supporting personal life goals and needs
• Participatory
• Social

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Social Networks in Educational Context

• Emerging informal e-learning domain is receiving
  greater attention because of the widespread
  utilization of social networking technologies.
• Informal learning
• Unplanned and spontaneous
• Information is being acquired implicitly
• Open for the participation of everyone
• Learners direct self-control

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Adoption of Social Networks in Educational Context

• While social networks have been adopted and being
  used extensively by many people, it is notable
  that they are not adopted in the educational
  field as much in other fields

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Adoption of Social Networks in Educational Context

• Models and theories about diffusion, adoption and
  acceptance of innovation could be grouped under
  two folds
• Based on socio- physiological contexts and
  investigated adoption of innovation at the
  individual level focused on internal decision
  processes
• Focused on features of innovation and its
  examined spread among users in a system

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Adoption of Social Networks in Educational Context
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Proposal Model For Social Networks Usage in
Educational Context
Facilitating Conditions
Ease of Use
Usefulness
Subjective Norm
Social Network Use
Social Factors
Image
Innovativeness
Community Identity
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Proposal Model For Social Networks Usage in
Educational Context

• As students can
• share information, idea, documents and homework
  in a very short time,
• communicate effectively and quickly
• access universal resources
• participate in groups and form new groups
• collaborate with people all around the world

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Proposal Model For Social Networks Usage in
Educational Context

• As students can easily
• use social network features
• upload and download files, pictures, videos
• organize their profiles
• communicate and collaborate

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Proposal Model For Social Networks Usage in
Educational Context

• As social networks
• contain social activities
• include very different people with their social
  norms
• different groups with their subjective cultures

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Proposal Model For Social Networks Usage in
Educational Context

• As social networks are
• relatively new environments
• different form other communication environments
• require taking risk to try

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Proposal Model For Social Networks Usage in
Educational Context

• As social networks provide
• opportunity to constitute an identity in virtual
  environment
• coming together with people have common
  interests, needs and expectations
• forming new communities around common goals

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Proposal Model For Social Networks Usage in
Educational Context

• As social newtorks provide
• publishing profile information
• displaying comments, photos and status for public

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Proposal Model For Social Networks Usage in
Educational Context

• As, people in social network environments,
• feel a social pressure
• face with others views and opinions
• adapt with others

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Proposal Model For Social Networks Usage in
Educational Context

• As in social networks, people need
• help from friends, teachers and others
• support services
• resources and help menu

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Conclusion

• Students needs and expectations also undergo a
  change with technologic developments.
• Education styles have became important in
  providing students to
• participate actively
• communicate in a flexible environment
• share information universally
• personalize education and environment
• learn independently from time and place

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Conclusion

• It is supposed that effectiveness will be
  increased when social networks, one of the
  emerging technologies, start to be used actively
  and reasonably in the educational field.

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Conclusion

• In further researches this model can be tested
  and verified.
• Researches can examine different potential
  constructs as
• motivation
• satisfaction
• interaction
• social presence

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Thank you
kocak_at_hacettepe.edu.tr
sguzin_at_hacettepe.edu.tr