“Here I am posting daily and enjoying it!”: Twitter days of the week challenge in a graduate level online course

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This paper reports the design, development, and implementation of a microchallenge in a graduate level online course. The purpose of the microchallenges was to get students more actively involved in posting on Twitter. The design process involved conceptualizing the week-long challenge with daily tasks aligned with course objectives. Technological tasks involved coordinating classroom based online communication tools to facilitate the challenge. The results demonstrate that students generally enjoyed the challenge which fostered active and meaningful knowledge sharing, networking, community development, and learning practices. Implications for social media based course activity design were discussed.

Presenter(s)

Ömer Arslan
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL, USA

Ömer Arslan has recently earned his doctoral degree from Instructional Systems & Learning Technologies program at Florida State University. He is interested in instructor social presence and identity in online courses as well as online course design and facilitation, particularly how instructors design and facilitate course activities that foster student engagement, motivation, and active participation in online learning interactions. He may be contacted at oa18h@fsu.edu.

Vanessa Dennen
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL, USA

Vanessa Dennen is a Professor of Instructional Systems & Learning Technologies at Florida State University. Her research is situated in both formal and informal learning environments and focuses on identity development, knowledge management, and knowledge brokering within online networks and communities of practice. Vanessa currently serves as Editor in Chief of The Internet and Higher Education. She may be contacted at vdennen@admin.fsu.edu.

Ji Yae Bong
Concordia University
Montréal, Québec, Canada

Dr. Ji Yae Bong is an assistant professor of Educational Technology at Concordia University, Canada. Her research focuses on open and online learning community and instructional design practice.

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