Social Media Tools in Experiential Internship Learning

This book describes how a support structure can be built to enhance peer-to-peer (and also students-to-lecturers) communication and support. It informs lecturers on how they can decide if they should adopt one or more social media tools to facilitate students’ learning, communication, and support for an internship program. This book introduces a participatory design approach that can help develop a pedagogy that will make good use of social media tools on internship learning. It presents a framework for experiential internship learning, integrating helpful educational practices such as participatory design approach and the use of social media.

• social media in learning
• experiential internship
• informal learning
• learning using Facebook
• participatory design
• computer supported collaborative learning
• learning and instruction

• The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong

  Samuel Kai Wah Chu

Dr Samuel K.W. Chu is Associate Professor of Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong and Deputy Director of Centre for Information Technology in Education. His research interests are 21st century skills, social media in education, collaborative inquiry project-based learning, digital literacies, game-based learning, gamification in education, etc.                          

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