Comments on: Facebook as LMS?

By: Christy Tucker

Christy Tucker — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:12:05 +0000

You might want to check out the follow up post I wrote about Social Networking as LMS for some more ideas. I also am intrigued by the model of the open course like CCK09, where the course exists on many platforms and is basically aggregated together via RSS. I think we do need to adapt to the environment where our students are already learning and participating, but we may also need to provide ways to separate the personal and professional or official school work.

By: Joey

Joey — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 12:43:21 +0000

Hi Cristy,

My idea is to integrate an existing lms to a social networking tool. This way, collaboration happens where it is most enjoyable. Like you mentioned in your post dated December 19, 2007 at 1:21 pm. The concern is to adapt an engaging environment. (Correct me if I misunderstood.)

Have you got any brighter ideas that you wish to share?

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By: Christy Tucker

Christy Tucker — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 19:21:59 +0000

Right now, I think I’m at the point where I feel there are things we can learn from Facebook about how to build learning communities. I’m not so enamored of the idea of using it exclusively for housing a course. Facebook lets people interact with each other in a number of ways, including with different media, and that’s something I think we could use in our courses. The ability to personalize is also something I think would be beneficial.

I do understand students wanting to keep the personal and school lives separate. I don’t think that’s any different from adults wanting to keep their professional and personal lives separate. It’s such a blurry line though, and different people are comfortable with different balances.

By: Sarah Stewart

Sarah Stewart — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 18:13:01 +0000

Thanks for this post. I have started to think about Facebook as a learning system but a lot of the students I have spoken to want to keep Facebook for their private lives only. Interestingly, I wanted my students to start a closed blog as a means to communicate whilst on placements but they’re doing their own thing with Bebo.

By: David

David — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 06:01:02 +0000

If you’re thinking Facebook as an LMS, check out Pyuple (www.pyuple.com). It’s like MySpace and Blackboard in one. Check out my profile there at http://david.pyuple.com. It’s pretty neat!

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