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Authors:
Manal Assaad
Tiina Mäkelä
Dimitris Pnevmatikos
Panagiota Christodoulou
Keywords: E-Learning; E-Teaching; Europe; Pedagogy; Social Media; STEM; Technologies.
Abstract:
The current study aims to identify trends in users’ wishes and requirements regarding the integration of social media in teaching and learning. Social media has been widely adopted in everyday life, facilitating communication and collaboration, as well as community development and knowledge exchange between users. Although the added value of social media for learning and instruction has been highlighted widely, still students’ and teachers’ perceptions on their use and implementation are incongruent with the current state of the art in their pedagogical exploitation. Science, Technology, Innovation, Mathematics, Education for the Young (STIMEY), a European funded project, aims at developing a pedagogical framework exploiting the full potential of social media, particularly for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education. A participatory co-design methodology, with focus group techniques, was employed for the identification of the project stakeholders’ wishes, forming the basis of more concrete requirements regarding the use of social media in teaching and learning. Moreover, a qualitative approach was followed for their analysis. Findings are presented and discussed in terms of their relationship with pedagogical design principles and social media concepts previously identified within the project research.
Pages: 94 to 100
Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2018
Publication date: July 22, 2018
Published in: conference
ISSN: 2308-4030
ISBN: 978-1-61208-650-7
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Dates: from July 22, 2018 to July 26, 2018