佛罗里达大学副教授Dr. Vanessa Dennen准备开展一个为期约1个月的MOOC课程（3月24日至4月20日），主题是利用网络社交媒体来进行有效学习。这个课程分为4个部分：
1、教育用网络社交媒体的“打捞”
2、网络社交媒体课程的开发
3、个人学习网络的建立和使用
4、网络社交媒体在辅助学习中的道德问题和隐私问题
这四个模块是相互独立的，学习形式主要包括阅读文章，即时和延时在线讨论，以及小型的学习项目。这个课程还有中国的助教，所以可以帮助英语不是非常好的参与者也能加入到更多的讨论中去。
第一个学习板块的及时网络讲座将在美国东部时间17:00开始，如果你不能参加第一个及时讲座，你可以随时观看网络讲座的录制视频。
以下是本课程的英文介绍以及免费注册页面链接：
课程注册 Direct Link to Enrollment Page
注：佛罗里达大学的教育研究生院在全美2000多所高校中排名第39。其中Dr. Vanessa Dennen 所在的教育技术专业在全美排前三名。Dr. Vanessa Dennen 在教育教学用网络社交媒体方面颇有研究。她与Dr. Myers 在2012年共同编著一本相关图书：Virtual Professional Development and Informal Learning via Social Networks.
Social Media for Active Learning MOOC
This semester the EME6635 Open Learning and MOOCs seminar, taught by Dr. Vanessa Dennen of the Instructional Systems program, has been designing a MOOC on Social Media for Active Learning. The MOOC will begin on March 24, led by Dr. Dennen with the assistance of the students in this class. It's a free professional development course for educators at all levels, designed in a flexible, modular format. Participants are welcome to complete one or all of the modules -- and it's fine if you want to sign up just to check it out.
We would love to have our COE colleagues and friends joining us for all or part of the course -- and feel free to pass the information along to any person or group that might be interested.
Direct Link to Enrollment Page
Course Description
This professional development course was designed to help instructors, trainers, and instructional designers learn how to better use social media to support learning, whether in an informal networking sense or by embedding social media into more formal learning contexts. The four course module topics are:
(1) social media curation for education
(2) developing social media lessons
(3) developing and using personal learning networks
(4) privacy and ethical issues related to using social media to support learning.
Whether you're a newcomer to social media tools or you're quite familiar with them, this course can help you find new and better ways to reach and teach your students, connecting them with the rich network of online people and resources, and helping them become
active users and contributors within this network.
Since this is a professional development course, it has been designed with flexibility in mind. Each week we will focus on a new topic and will have new learning materials, a live chat, discussions, and a small project. You may complete the projects for each
week - or just those that interest you most or best fit your schedule. You can earn badges during the weeks you choose to complete the projects, and you'll be able to get feedback from our community of learners and teaching assistants.
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