Social Networking and learning - Badge
Name
Social Networking and learning.
Issuer
University of Parma.
Issued since 24 June 2016.
Description
This Badge is earned by learners participating in the course "Social Networking and learning" offered by EduOpen. The Badge is to all intents and purposes the course’s certificate of attendance.
Badge Criteria
The owner of this badge has taken part in the online course "Social Networking and learning", within the MOOC Teach different! Methodologies, tools, activities (Didatech). Its aims are to provide useful ideas to make their lessons more motivating and efficient using specific methodologies, to learn how to increase the participation of students, to use technology effectively in teaching. The path collects opinions and experiences of experts from different regions of Italy and Europe, and benefits from the collaboration of teachers from the University of Parma, Padua, Genoa, Aarhus (Denmark) and Dalarna (Sweden), as well as from researchers of The Institute for Educational Technology of the National Research Council of Italy (CNR). The course was designed and built for educators and teachers, primarily at the University of Parma and other Italian universities, but also open to teachers working in other fields and doctoral students and post-graduate educational courses aimed at acquisition of qualifications and skills for teaching. Teachers: Stefania Manca, Gillian Mansfield, Sara Valla. Within the sections of Didatech - Social Networking and learning, there have been reflections and practice on social networks in teaching and collaborative organization of information with Social Bookmarking. The badge was obtained after taking part and having fulfilled the following conditions: having worked as interim activities identified as required for each section that makes up the course/module; having played the final compulsory test corresponding to each section.
Skills
The owner of this Badge participated and successfully concluded the course "Social Networking and learning", demonstrating acquisition of the following SKILLS: knowing what are the social networks and what are distinguished from the broader category of social media; knowing the main trends regarding the use of social networking in education, teaching and the Lifelong Learning; knowing how to plan a small educational activities based on the use of open social networks; knowing the main professional development resources in the main social professional and academic networks; Knowing what is meant by bookmarking and social bookmarking; some educational examples of social bookmarking for teachers, students and collaborative learning; knowing how to reflect on when and how you can use the (social) bookmarking tools in an educational context; knowing how to design a basic use of a social bookmarking tools in your teaching context, based on some good practices and suggestions received; having had the opportunity to discuss with your colleagues the same subject area or other areas of opportunities and critical use of social bookmarking in your teaching context.
Tags
Teachingmethod, SocialNetwork, SocialScience