Share and Embrace Demographic and Location Diversity: Creating an Instagram-Based Inclusive Online Learning Community

Autor/inn/en	Zhu, Wangda; Hua, Ying; Zhu, Gaoxia; Wang, Luping
Titel	Share and Embrace Demographic and Location Diversity: Creating an Instagram-Based Inclusive Online Learning Community
Quelle	In: British Journal of Educational Technology, 53 (2022) 6, S.1530-1548 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0007-1013
DOI	10.1111/bjet.13272
Schlagwörter	Social Media; Photography; Inclusion; Communities of Practice; Distance Education; Electronic Learning; Undergraduate Students + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Soziale Medien; Fotografie; Inklusion; Community; Distance study; Distance learning; Fernunterricht
Abstract	It is critical to create an inclusive online learning environment for students with diverse demographic information studying in different environments, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic when they are disconnected from peers. Guided to create an inclusive online learning community by situated learning theory and community of practice, both of which advocate learning in context and community, we invited 115 undergraduate students to post photos related to environmental psychology concepts and their surrounding environments and discussed their postings on Instagram over eight weeks. To understand the inclusiveness of the community and students' perception, we collected their posts by searching designated hashtags and interviewed representatives of participants using a stratified sampling strategy. Through network analysis of 272 posts and qualitative analysis of 22 in-depth interviews, we found that when participants shared and discussed their surroundings and environmental psychology concepts on Instagram, their learning community was inclusive regarding gender, ethnicity, and program. Student participants' centrality and influence were more relevant to whether and how they expressed their identities in the community through posts. We further discuss how our findings could inform to create inclusive and active communities in the future. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01