Adding Social Media to e-Learning in the Workplace: Instilling Interactive Learning Culture

dc.creator	Juha Leino
dc.creator	Erika Tanhua-Piiroinen
dc.creator	Johanna Sommers-Piiroinen
dc.date	2012-08-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-20T22:07:53Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-20T22:07:53Z
dc.identifier	10.3991/ijac.v5i3.2183
dc.identifier	1867-5565
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/f24ee3c851da434096eb8db62cc8282a
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/11566
dc.description	As social media features are increasingly added to e-learning, we urgently need more case studies of their use to ground practices in actual experience rather than hype. Using ethnography-based approach, we studied five continuous pro-fessional development pilot trainings where learning largely took place at workplace through wikis, blogs, forums, chats and voice conferencing. Learners valued interactivity, peer support and abundant, instant feedback offered by synchro-nous features. Simultaneously, however, asynchronous fea-tures were often treated as chores and overall interactive learning culture failed to emerge. Instructors, while explicitly encouraging social learning approach, implicitly reinforced teacher-centered learning, leading learners to stick to conven-tional learning culture. Also, training designs often failed to engender interaction. Moreover, at general level, group sizes were too big, moderation was not used efficiently, and differ-ing skill sets of learners were not evened out. The lessons learned from these trainings offer us insight into how to design e-learning enhanced with social media and how to avoid po-tential pitfalls. Particularly, we discuss designing interactivity into the e-learning process.
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	kassel university press GmbH
dc.relation	http://online-journals.org/i-jac/article/view/2183
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1867-5565
dc.rights	CC BY
dc.source	International Journal of Advanced Corporate Learning (iJAC), Vol 5, Iss 3, Pp 18-25 (2012)
dc.subject	E-learning
dc.subject	social media
dc.subject	workplace
dc.subject	Theory and practice of education
dc.subject	LB5-3640
dc.subject	Education
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dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Theory and practice of education
dc.subject	LB5-3640
dc.subject	Education
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dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Theory and practice of education
dc.subject	LB5-3640
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Theory and practice of education
dc.subject	LB5-3640
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Theory and practice of education
dc.subject	LB5-3640
dc.subject	Education
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dc.title	Adding Social Media to e-Learning in the Workplace: Instilling Interactive Learning Culture
dc.type	article