Student-created Facebook groups support self-directed design learning and sharing of expertise outside the formal curriculum¶
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q2 i? Informal communications in five student-created Facebook groups functioned as part of the overall pedagogy of an interaction design Master's program, enabling self-directed learning and expertise sharing. → Gray 2014
Evidence¶
Gray 2014¶
Gray, C. M., & Howard, C. D. (2014). Designerly talk in non-pedagogical social spaces. Journal of Learning Design, 7(1), 40-58. https://doi.org/10.5204/jld.v7i1.153
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Naturalistic observation of five student-created Facebook groups in an HCI design Master's program. Corpus included 4,558 status updates, 15,273 comments, and 5,494 likes from 183 participants. The study found these groups "functioned as part of the overall pedagogy" supporting self-directed learning.
"we describe how a set of informal communications, encapsulated in five student-created and managed Facebook groups, functioned as part of the overall pedagogy in an interaction design Master's program."
Discussion¶
Related Claims¶
- Four types of designerly talk manifest in student-managed social network spaces: tool selection, professional identity, skill-sharing coordination, and ethical design discussion — related
- Student-generated Facebook groups constitute a hidden curriculum that supports learning outside the formal design studio — possibly the same claim (merge candidate)
- Spontaneous responsiveness to real-world events in PBL can deepen student-directed inquiry beyond what designed curriculum achieves — related
- Self-regulated learning improves achievement — related
- Social network site participation enables design learning that breaks the confines of space and time, including pre-enrollment learning and asynchronous ethical discussion — a narrower finding that bears on this claim
- Students transition between student and proto-professional roles in informal SNS discourse, bridging learning and design practice — related
- Facebook use in higher education is associated with increased teacher-student and student-student interaction — a broader claim this one bears on
- First-year students used Facebook mainly for social purposes and only secondarily for informal student-to-student academic purposes, rarely for formal teaching. — related
- Students were generally opposed to tutors contacting them via Facebook for formal teaching, though a majority saw some role for departmental and module-level administrative uses. — related
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Student-created Facebook groups support self-directed design learning and sharing of expertise outside the formal curriculum |
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Student-created Facebook groups support self-directed design learning and sharing of expertise outside the formal curriculum |
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