{"id":10314,"date":"2015-03-16T16:32:14","date_gmt":"2015-03-16T16:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/socialmedialab.ca\/web\/?p=10314"},"modified":"2024-12-11T01:10:18","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T01:10:18","slug":"lak15-presentation-on-media-multiplexity-in-connectivist-moocs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/socialmedialab.ca\/web\/2015\/03\/16\/lak15-presentation-on-media-multiplexity-in-connectivist-moocs\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Multiplexity in Connectivist MOOCs: Examining the Role of Social Media in Collaborative Learning #LAK15"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 507px;\">\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 66.666667% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/468839127?et=aTapOpe2SHpmezsZAhEi5A&amp;sig=70zmbEkNvMmDwqjnrowUbVEtE2XSyQ1BQ3iFQKRtdx0=\" width=\"507\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0 0 0 10px; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/468839127\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">View image<\/a> | <a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">gettyimages.com<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Can social media usage enhance collaborative learning? That is one of the questions that Dr. Anatoliy Gruzd (@gruzd) of Toronto Metropolitan University Ted Rogers School of Management and Professor Caroline Haythornwaite (@hthwaite) of the University of British Columbia are setting out to answer.<\/p>\n<p>With the help of collaborators Rafa Absar (@rafaabsar) at Clarkson University and\u00a0Drew Paulin (@drewpaulin) at the University of British Columbia iSchool,\u00a0the team\u00a0examined the use of multiple social media platforms for learning in two connectivist MOOCs (or cMOOCs).<\/p>\n<p>In this project, Dr. Gruzd and Dr. Haythornwaite are developing and evaluating novel learning analytics for detecting and studying collaborative learning processes. This project is part of a larger five year (2013-2018) research initiative called \u00a0\u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/socialmedialab.ca\/web\/research-old\/academia-projects\/learning-analytics-for-the-social-media-age\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Learning Analytics in the Social Media Age<\/a>\u2019 aimed at understanding how online social networks influence educational models.\u00a0 The initiative is funded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).<\/p>\n<p>The team will be presenting some of their preliminary findings at the upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190301130658\/http:\/\/lak15.solaresearch.org:80\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">5th International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge &#8220;Scaling Up: Big Data to Big Impact&#8221; <\/a>happening this week (March 16-20) at Marist College, Poughkeepsie, NY. \u00a0Here is a preview of their poster and preliminary findings and an infographic explaining the theory of media multiplexity, as originally proposed by <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20131205021501\/http:\/\/www.itu.dk\/stud\/speciale\/specialeprojekt\/Litteratur\/Haythornthwaite_2005%20-%20Social%20networks%20and%20internet%20connectivity%20effects.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dr. Haythornwaite in early 2000s<\/a> and recently expanded to include social media.<\/p>\n<p>If you have any questions or comments about the &#8220;Media Multiplexity in Connectivist MOOCs&#8221; project, please get in touch with us.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 1px solid #CCC; border-width: 1px; margin-bottom: 5px; max-width: 100%;\" src=\"\/\/www.slideshare.net\/slideshow\/embed_code\/45906041\" width=\"610\" height=\"520\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"> <\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/center><a href=\"https:\/\/app.photobucket.com\/u\/samuelhardman1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i1246.photobucket.com\/albums\/gg618\/samuelhardman1\/MediaMultiplexityTheory-1.png~original\" alt=\" photo MediaMultiplexityTheory-1.png\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>View image | gettyimages.com Can social media usage enhance collaborative learning? That is one of the questions that Dr. Anatoliy Gruzd (@gruzd) of Toronto Metropolitan University Ted Rogers School of Management and Professor Caroline Haythornwaite (@hthwaite) of the University of British Columbia are setting out to answer. With the help of collaborators Rafa Absar (@rafaabsar) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":10368,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,491,44,265],"tags":[335,333],"class_list":["post-10314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic","category-blog-post","category-publishing","category-research","tag-plasma","tag-moocs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/socialmedialab.ca\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/socialmedialab.ca\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/socialmedialab.ca\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socialmedialab.ca\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socialmedialab.ca\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10314"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/socialmedialab.ca\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21341,"href":"https:\/\/socialmedialab.ca\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10314\/revisions\/21341"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socialmedialab.ca\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/socialmedialab.ca\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socialmedialab.ca\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socialmedialab.ca\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}