ABSTRACT
This chapter provides insights on networked learning using institutional social media to support educational technology and instructional design graduate students. Social media is more than just social networking sites such as Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Snapchat. Social media also includes web-based and downloadable applications that allow for user generated content such as wikis, blogs, video hosting sites (e.g., YouTube), and text-exchange platforms (e.g., WhatsApp). In this paper, it is argued that social media represents a convivial technology in which individuals are engaging in networked learning. A review of the literature yielded examples of how institutional social media is been used in teaching and learning specifically in instructional design and technology programs. Insights from a case study about an instructional design and technology program that has been actively using different institutional social media to enhance the networked learning experience of the graduate students (and other stakeholders) in the program is shared as a way to connect research with practice. Guiding questions, questions to move the discussion forward, and recommended readings are also shared.
