Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I: Varieties of social media: platform, technology, spatial -- New directions in teaching technologies: introduction to educating educators with social media / Charles Wankel -- The birth of a social networking phenomenon / Joseph Rene Corbeil and Maria Elena Corbeil -- Facebook and education: a classroom connection? / Terri L. Towner and Caroline Lego Muñoz -- Social media for higher education in developing countries -- an intercultural perspective / Malik Aleem Ahmed -- Part II: Process in learning and instruction with social media -- A social media approach to higher education / Marlyn Tadros -- Creating an ecosystem for lifelong learning through social media: a graduate experience / Stella C.S. Porto, Lisa Blaschke, and Gila Kurtz -- The networked class in a master's program: personalization and openness through social media / Lina Morgado -- Part III: Design of instruction with social media -- Future social learning networks at universities -- an exploratory seminar setting / Nina Heinze and Wolfgang Reinhardt -- Connecting the future teachers with the teachers of today / larysa Nadolny -- Developing a pedagogy: the role of the tutor in enabling student learning through the use of a wiki / Martina A. Doolan -- Technology integration can be delicious: social bookmarkinig as a technology integration tool / Gloria Edwards and Barbra F. Mosley -- Public issues, private concerns: social media and course management systems in higher education / Jeremy Sarachan and Kyle F. Reinson -- Part IV: Delivery of instruction with social media -- Web 2.0: information literacy, libraries, and pedagogies / Beth Martin -- Social annotation to enhance learning and assessment in higher education / David G. Lebow, Dale W. Lick, Hope J. Hartman, Campbell Dalglish, and Oliver Grundmann -- Our head in the cloud: transforming work on college completion / Diana D. Woolis and Gail O. Mellow -- Enchancing in-class participation in a Web 2.0 world / Steve Rhine and Mark Bailey -- Part V: Evaluating instruction that uses social media skills -- (Social) media literacy: challenges and opportunities for higher education / Mark A. Gammon and Joanne White -- Social media killed the LMS: re-imagining the traditional learning management system in the age of blogs and online social networks / Danielle M. Stern and Michael d.D. Willits -- Twitter in higher education / Lisa Chamberlin and Kay Lehmann.

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