Social Media & Mobile Technology: Learning in a Digital Age (Steve Wheeler)
Channel: Zaid Ali Alsagoff
Date: 2012-07-23

We are witnessing an exponential rise in the use of social media and mobile technology. We have recently seen widespread use of blogging and social networks, use of Twitter and social tagging, wikis and collaborative filtering, recommender systems. All of these and more, are impacting upon the world of education and training, and there is now a need for concerted research into the effectiveness of these applications. Coupled with the rise in use of mobile phones, handheld computing and the soon to arrive wearable computing and augmented reality tools, we are on the crest of a new wave of learning. Using examples from recent research this presentation explored some of the new ways students are learning, and provide some examples of how education might adapt to these new trends.