Education and Social Media

<b>Leading scholars from a variety of disciplines explore the future of education including social media usage new norms of knowledge privacy copyright and MOOCs.</b><p>How are widely popular social media such as Facebook Twitter and Instagram transforming how teachers teach how kids learn and the very foundations of education? What controversies surround the integration of social media in students' lives? The past decade has brought increased access to new media and with this new opportunities and challenges for education. In this book leading scholars from education law communications sociology and cultural studies explore the digital transformation now taking place in a variety of educational contexts. The contributors examine such topics as social media usage in schools online youth communities and distance learning in developing countries; the disruption of existing educational models of how knowledge is created and shared; privacy; accreditation; and the tension between the new ease of sharing and copyright laws. Case studies examine teaching media in K-12 schools and at universities; tuition-free open education powered by social media as practiced by the University of the People; new financial models for higher education; the benefits and challenges of MOOCS (Massive Open Online Courses); social media and teacher education; and the civic and individual advantages of teens' participatory play.</p><p><b>Contributors<br></b>Colin Agur Jack M. Balkin Valerie Belair-Gagnon danah boyd Nicholas Bramble David Buckingham Chris Dede Benjamin Gleason Christine Greenhow Daniel J. H. Greenwood Jiahang Li Yite John Lu Minhtuyen Mai John Palfrey Ri Pierce-Grove Adam Poppe Shai Reshef Julia Sonnevend Mark Warschauer</p>