Exploring the opportunities of social media to build knowledge in learner-centered Indigenous learning Spaces
Henk Huijser | Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education, Australia
Jurg Bronnimann | Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education, Australia
This chapter explores the opportunities online learning environments offer to
address issues related to Indigenous pedagogy and Indigenous approaches to
teaching and learning, with a specific focus on social and mobile media. Social
media tools have created many opportunities for social approaches to teaching
and learning, and specifically to developing Indigenous learning communities,
and overall much more explicitly learner-centered approaches. In this
chapter we argue that social media are well suited to address the learning needs
of Indigenous students in Australia, and at the same time we use Batchelor
Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education, and its ‘both-ways’ philosophy, as a
case study to explore some of the opportunities and potential barriers that social
media present within learner-centered pedagogy.
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