Connect, Participate and Learn: Transforming Pedagogies in Higher Education

There is an emerging need for a transformation of traditional pedagogies in higher education environments. Social media tools present opportunities for designing learning experiences that afford extended social interaction and collaboration. This paper presents a case where several social media tools were used as course platforms in the context of a blended "Social Media in Education" graduate course. In addition to presenting instructional design decisions behind the course organization and delivery, this paper aims to introduce an example of how an open course content was created with the learners on different social media channels and helped them eliminate learning boundaries by engaging in formal and informal learning experiences. Various affordances of each social media tool for different pedagogical purposes are presented.