DYNAMIC CONNECTIONS THROUGH THE USE OF SOCIAL NETWORKING TOOLS IN A MULTI-DISCIPLINARY BUSINESS CAPSTONE UNITMarianne Grey, Meropy Barut, Eryadi Masli, |
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This paper explores the use of social networking tools in the context of changing practices of learning and teaching in a Business Capstone unit at an Australian university. In this unit, both students and staff interact in multi-disciplinary teams using Team-Based learning (TBL). As part of this process we use Web 2.0 tools in the form of a student blog and a staff wiki to engage with emerging technologies in the creation of hybrid knowledge within rapidly changing social and cultural conditions. We aim to show that this fluid online space is contested as the knowledge created is not solely produced by the university but is interconnected with the students' and teachers' own disciplinary knowledge and personal understandings, along with their digital literacy practices. We conclude that the dynamic connections made in the space of an online environment are not innocent, therefore ongoing questions must be raised over the ownership and authority of that knowledge and the ways it is created. Such questioning leads to the development of transformative pedagogies and different ways of thinking about literacy in higher education. |
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