Investigating Instructional Strategies for Using Social Media in Formal and Informal Learning.

By Baiyun Chen, Thomas Andrew Bryer. 2012

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Despite the high popularity of personal use of online social media, a low percentage of students and instructors use them for educational purposes. This qualitative study explores the use of social media among faculty in the discipline of public administration in the United States. Eight instructors participated in telephone interviews about their experiences and perceptions of using social media for teaching and learning. Instructors perceive that informal learning using social media could be facilitated by instructors and integrated into formal learning environments for enriched discussions, increased engagement, and broad connections. This study provides qualitative empirical support for social learning theories while offering strategies for and examples of how social media can be used to connect formal and informal learning.

Subfields: Communication, Education, Sociology and Political Science

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2. Kristen Tarantino
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Citations in the corpus

• Beyond the Classroom Walls: Edmodo in Saudi Secondary School EFL Instruction, Attitudes and Challenges (2014, background): “Chen and Bryer (2012) believe that the notion of using social networking for educational purposes can be traced back to the theory of Social Constructivism in the 1960s.”
• Social media and education: reconceptualizing the boundaries of formal and informal learning (2016, background): “Some authors avoid any explicit definition without any clear rationale for doing so (Chen and Bryer 2012).”
• Effects of Student Engagement with Social Media on Student Learning: A Review of Literature (2013, background): “Furthermore, using social media fosters long-term retention of information and develops a deeper understanding of content that is discussed in a class (Chen & Bryer, 2012; Heafner & Friedman, 2008).”