Online Workshop
Online Teaching Program series at the Center for Teaching, Learning and Technology (CTLT), UBC.
Students, and everyone for that matter, are more accustomed to the world of social media than ever before. An average student spends about 2 hours daily on social media sites (Perrin and Jiang, 2018). So, it would be an effective tool to incorporate it into our teaching strategies.
How can we leverage social media to engage our students? In this workshop, we will review the structure of various social media and discuss how we use social media to connect with students across various courses for resource sharing and peer learning.
We will also share analytics from Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Instagram to better understand how our students interact with our digital content.
In addition to exploring social media’s benefits, we will also look at some of its downsides: privacy concerns and general criticisms. We will conclude by identifying how to address these issues when we are ready to adopt social media in our teaching.
Improving Student Engagement in Technology-Enhanced Classrooms: What Works, What Matters and Why?
Summary: A discussion of course design for a fourth-year Research Seminar: To research social issues, students must understand human behaviour, culture, and socioeconomic foundations. Peer discussions, which often generate positive externalities, can lead to a greater understanding of the costs and benefits of various policies and behaviours (Van Den Berg, Admiraal, & Pilot, 2006). While the professor and students interact mostly at the individual level, peer discussions are at the individual level, in small group settings, or in large groups. [Link]