Social Networking and Distance Education: A Taxonomy Michael Simonson Program Professor Instructional Technology and Distance Education Nova Southeastern University North Miami Beach, Florida

Web 2.0

Slide: 5 3Di Web 2.0 Web 2.0 and the 3D internet usher in the age of the Free Range Learner Web 1.0 Access Participate Value Proposition Poster Children FindShare Collaborate Co-Create Learning Progression Dr. Tony O’Driscoll North Carolina State University

Gartner

Learning About Social Networking: A Taxonomy Level 1: Learning about social networks – definitions, history, background, and examples. Level 2: Designing for social networks – profiling, blogging, wiki-ing, and friending. Level 3: Studying social networks – ethics, uses, mis- uses, policing, supporting. Level 4: Learning from and with social networks – social networks for teaching and learning, science, research, and theory building.

Judith Tabron, Director of Faculty Computing Services, Hofstra University The Chronicle of Higher Education, March 28, 2008 “Our students live online. The fall in love, they shop, they order pizza on the web. Their iPods, TV’s and Xboxes are sophisticated technologies. They instant- message their blogs from their cellphones, and they can’t picture a college having a place in any of this, because we haven’t show them that we can.” “It will be a dismal future if the only thing our graduates cannot do online is learn.”

Learning Communities: Social Networking in Distance Education?