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Refereed Paper with Presentation

All class communication in public: the impact of using Twitter in lieu of LMS
Jean-Julien Aucouturier, Temple University, Japan Campus, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan, aucouturier@gmail.com

I present here a case-study of using Twitter in a series of undergraduate college classes. All class communications outside of the physical meetings were held on Twitter, in effect replacing a LMS like Blackboard or Moodle by a public platform. Doing so has severe (and I contend here, mostly positive) consequences on the class dynamics, which reminded me of the democratic teaching principles of French school reformer Célestin Freinet.

All Audiences Twitter, LMS, Public, Freinet