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Elements and Performance Criteria

  1. Identify and recommend appropriate environment for particular e-learning task
  2. Plan the implementation of the selected social media environment
  3. Implement and evaluate the selected social media community
  4. Design and establish strategies to sustain the social media community

Performance Evidence

The candidate must show evidence of the ability to complete tasks outlined in the elements and performance criteria of this unit, including:

documenting at least one review of information and communications technology (ICT) solutions for an educational environment, collaboration, and communication technologies, that includes researching theory and practice in relation to advanced learning practice, especially where these are enabled by new content solutions, and vocational education and training approaches or technologies.


Knowledge Evidence

The candidate must be able to demonstrate essential knowledge to effectively complete the task outlined in the elements and performance criteria of this unit. This includes knowledge of:

contemporary ICT in an educational environment

the criteria for assessment of online content and rate

content repositories relevant to a specific community in order to build resources

differences between social media communities for education, industry, business and government

a range of learning styles and how to map them to relevant social media tools

the key features of budgeting and cost-benefit analysis

learner/individual community learning requirements

options for the presentation of learning materials

the processes for assessing the quality of dynamic interaction

the processes for transferring and sharing knowledge with learners

a range of assessment tools relevant to social media community activities

a relevant repository of knowledge that can be shared

the skills of champions and mentors

the steps required to build an online social media community

strategies to build effective interaction using ICT

tangible and intangible elements of an online social media community.