Teaching Crowds: Learning and Social Media

Within the rapidly expanding field of educational technology, learners and educators must confront a seemingly overwhelming selection of tools designed to deliver and facilitate both online and blended learning. Many of these tools assume that learning is configured and delivered in closed contexts, through learning management systems (LMS). However, while traditional “classroom” learning is by no means obsolete, networked learning is in the ascendant. A foundational method in online and blended education, as well as the most common means of informal and self-directed learning, networked learning is rapidly becoming the dominant mode of teaching as well as learning.

In Teaching Crowds, Dron and Anderson introduce a new model for understanding and exploiting the pedagogical potential of Web-based technologies, one that rests on connections—on networks and collectives—rather than on separations. Recognizing that online learning both demands and affords new models of teaching and learning, the authors show how learners can engage with social media platforms to create an unbounded field of emergent connections. These connections empower learners, allowing them to draw from one another’s expertise to formulate and fulfill their own educational goals. In an increasingly networked world, developing such skills will, they argue, better prepare students to become self-directed, lifelong learners.

    Title Teaching Crowds: Learning and Social Media
    Authors Jon Dron, Terry Anderson
    Publisher: AU Press / UBC Press (December 1, 2014)
    Paperback: 450
    eBook: PDF (370 pages, 2.6 MB) and PDF files
    Language: English
    ISBN-10/ASIN: 1927356806
    ISBN-13: 978-1927356807
    Download: http://www.aupress.ca/index.php/books/120235

Twitter Data Analytics

 This book provides methods for harnessing Twitter data to discover solutions to complex inquiries. The brief introduces the process of collecting data through Twitter’s APIs and offers strategies for curating large datasets.

The book gives examples of Twitter data with real-world examples, the present challenges and complexities of building visual analytic tools, and the best strategies to address these issues. Examples demonstrate how powerful measures can be computed using various Twitter data sources. Due to its openness in sharing data, Twitter is a prime example of social media in which researchers can verify their hypotheses, and practitioners can mine interesting patterns and build their own applications.

This book is designed to provide researchers, practitioners, project managers, as well as graduate students with an entry point to jump start their Twitter endeavors. It also serves as a convenient reference for readers seasoned in Twitter data analysis.

Title Twitter Data Analytics
Author(s) Shamanth Kumar, Fred Morstatter, Huan Liu
Publisher: Springer; 2014 edition (November 25, 2013)
Paperback 77 pages
eBook PDF (89 pages, 3.3 MB)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1461493714
ISBN-13: 978-1461493716
Download: http://tweettracker.fulton.asu.edu/tda/

Twitter Bootstrap 3 Succinctly

Learn how to create multi-column layout, navigation bar, carousel, progress bar, popover, form validation and more. Find out how to easily customize Bootstrap to fit your style. Learn by example: all examples are fully tested and downloadable. You can reuse them on your own project. Build a responsive website from scratch - step by step

Learn the new and improved features in the latest version of Twitter Bootstrap. Author Peter Shaw builds his work on the top of Twitter Bootstrap Succinctly to provide up-to-date information on the latest version of the software. With this book, developers will transition smoothly into the newest version of Twitter Bootstrap, which boasts an emphasis on mobile development.

Title Twitter Bootstrap 3 Succinctly: Design Attractive, Consistent UIs with Twitter Bootstrap
Author(s) Peter Shaw
Publisher: Syncfusion Inc. (2014)
Paperback: N/A
eBook PDF (110 pages, 2.1 MB), Kindle
Language: English
ISBN-10/ASIN: N/A
ISBN-13: N/A
Download: http://files2.syncfusion.com/Downloads/Ebooks/Twitter_Bootstrap3_Succinctly.pdf

Social Media Mining: An Introduction

    The growth of social media over the last decade has revolutionized the way individuals interact and industries conduct business. Individuals produce data at an unprecedented rate by interacting, sharing, and consuming content through social media. Understanding and processing this new type of data to glean actionable patterns presents challenges and opportunities for interdisciplinary research, novel algorithms, and tool development.

Social Media Mining integrates social media, social network analysis, and data mining to provide a convenient and coherent platform for students, practitioners, researchers, and project managers to understand the basics and potentials of social media mining. It introduces the unique problems arising from social media data and presents fundamental concepts, emerging issues, and effective algorithms for network analysis and data mining.

Suitable for use in advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate courses as well as professional short courses, the text contains exercises of different degrees of difficulty that improve understanding and help apply concepts, principles, and methods in various scenarios of social media mining.

Title Social Media Mining: An Introduction
Author(s) Reza Zafarani, Mohammad Ali Abbasi, Huan Liu
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (April 28, 2014)
Hardcover/Paperback 332 pages (est.)
eBook PDF (382 pages, 4.8 MB)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1107018854
ISBN-13: 978-1107018853
eBook: http://dmml.asu.edu/smm/

Discourses on Social Software

 Can computer science solve our social problems? With Discourses on Social Software Jan Van Eijck and Rineke Verbrugge suggest it can, offering the reader a fascinating introduction to the innovative field of social software. Compiling a series of discussions involving a logician, a computer scientist, a philosopher, and a number of researchers from various other academic fields, this collection details the many ways in which the seemingly abstract disciplines of logic and computer science can be used to analyze and solve contemporary social problems.

Title Discourses on Social Software
Author(s) Jan van Eijck, Rineke Verbrugge
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press (August 15, 2010)
Paperback 270 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9089641238
ISBN-13: 978-9089641236
eBook: http://homepages.cwi.nl/~jve/dss/