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Course Objectives/Evaluation
The central objective of this course is to provide students the opportunity to connect social media tools and behaviors with critical global issues and their own academic goals.
Students in this course will be evaluated based on:
- demonstrating growth in the quality and quantity of social media tools that they use
- contributing thoughtfully to the community at Aarhus University and engaging their networks from their home institutions in person and through social media
- connecting theoretical work about media and community with a real-life contexts
- completing a project that uses social media in principled ways that demonstrates deep understanding of the intersection of relationships, networks, technologies, cultures, and design.
This course intends to take advantage of two specific opportunities emerging at the intersection of innovative technologies and innovative pedagogies. First, social media gives students the opportunity to engage in courses away from the classroom - but is also offers the opportunity to participate together in class more dynamically.This course is an opportunity to use social media to support face-to-face learning; it is a chance to drop the "e" from e-learning, and fully engage in the course as an integrated experience. Second, AU's Summer University program brings students from around the world to create an interdisciplinary, intercultural learning community that is sustainable beyond the summer of 2010. This course will not only discuss social media but use it heavily and will be guided by the work of Seth Godin, Howard Rheingold, and Cummings and Barton (2008) who have outlined theoretical and practical approaches to using wikis in the classroom.
Undergraduate and graduate students are accepted.
Dan Gilbert
This is a highly-interactive project-based course where students will work together in-person and online to build a community of learners. There will be some lectures and discussion sessions, but most of our work is going to be as a class community sharing what we find and challenging each other. The main project for the course will require students to create, carry out, and evaluate a social media strategy that will either (a) support their own academic work at their home institution or (b) improve the world. Students should bring and expect to use as many digital devices (laptops, mobile phones, digital cameras, mp3 players, etc.) as they have - especially ones that can connect to the internet.
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For students outside Aarhus University: Follow the instructions on the following webpage:
http://www.au.dk/en/summeruniversity/courses2011/itelectronicsandprogramming/
Written assigment, including product.: In connection with the course or in continuation of the course, the student hands in a product (e.g. video production, home page, booklet) together with a written reflexion of the product. (6-8 pages).
