I have joined many communities and groups and followed many Social Media Professors in an attempt to gain knowledge from those that are already teaching a Social Media course. I have found that some are teaching the course based on assumptions that all their students are already using social media. These professors skip the introduction of the social media applications and jump into complicated and lengthy campaigns. I am making the assumption that the course they are teaching is not an introductory course and there may have been a pre-requisite to their course.
Since my course will have both those that know and use Social Media on a daily basis and those have may have only dabbled in Facebook a little, it is a challenge to develop content. The adult learners in the class may struggle a bit and need to put in mo8re time than the traditional aged students.
Since it is a brand new class, there will be tweaking done for next semester after I gauge the success and failures of the assignments. Since this is a community college course, I expect the traditional students to try to skip through assignments and take the quizzes without prepping. I also expect the adult learners to do every assignment and maybe struggle with some of them. Since the adult learner may not be proficient with the technology they are using; cell phone, tablet or PC, I wonder how everything will play out by the end of the semester. If I get one adult learner a with a brand new smart phone😳, the first they have ever owned, I may have to recommend they withdraw, as this is not a course to learn technology but rather to use new applications or to better use the applications you have used before.
