Hi, everyone. It's been a fantastic a second week in the Learning to Teach Online MOOC. And I hope you've been enjoying it as much as we have. So today, we're going to be answering the top 5 questions in the weekly Q&A. So Simon, what's the first question for this week? >> We're week two by the way, just to make that clear. First question is about reluctant students in online learning, posted by Sergio, thank you very much. So what to do when students are really reluctant to use online materials for studying? But he was also talking about the use of social media for studying as well, and what the boundaries are between using Facebook for example as a teaching space versus something more dedicated and private. >> Okay. >> That's pretty much the crux of that question. >> Yeah, go ahead. >> I think there's a couple aspects to this question that you need to think about. Firstly, there is what technology you're using but if we put that to the side for a second I think if students are reluctant to use online technology for their learning maybe you need to start pulling back a little bit and thinking about why you're asking them to use it, what activities you're asking them to do within it and how relevant that is to the way they're studying in the classroom. So it's really important to think about the connection and the integration of those online spaces with the activities that you're actually doing in the curriculum and I do strongly recommend you take a look if you haven't already at Module 7. >> Yes, Module 7. >> Engaging in moderating students, because we've got a lot of tips there that actually deal with this idea of students who are reluctant or having problems engaging. So that's the short answer, I'd say to browse that and have a look through and do the activities. I think that would really help. Do you want to take the? >> Yeah, so in terms of the social media, the question brought out, in the form brought out when to use Facebook or is Facebook appropriate for certain situations, for educational contexts? So it depends on the context and your course and your population of students in particular. My personal view is that social media in terms of Facebook, in particular more so than Twitter, is really a place for students to be engage with one another without the teacher present. I think it's a place, my personal view, is that it's a place for them to communicate and often times for them to setup on their own to use. So, we're talking here about high school students, undergraduate students, adults who often are on Facebook anyway to share pictures and what not and from what I've seen from my own experience is often the students will go on and set up their own Facebook pages for study purposes and they don't really want the teachers in there. They want it to be their own place while other forms of social media potentially like Twitter, maybe even Pinterest. If carefully integrated into the curriculum and students actually know why it's important to use that for their course, could be successful. >> I think the important thing there is about privacy settings because some other people in the thread raised a concern about the mixing of personal- >> Yeah. >> And private kind of things or education. So you don't want to see your teachers sunbathing on the beach or something like that from these holidays. So I think it's about understanding the privacy settings if you're creating groups and making sure that those public and private areas are actually separated if you're going to use it. >> Yeah. >> Lot's of teachers have used social media quite successfully but they pay attention to that division and making sure that there no boundaries across- >> Or even, sorry just to interject there, or even to have separate accounts for example. >> Yeah. >> Separate Facebook accounts where students are feeling that they don't want their own pictures from their party on the weekend to be visible to their classmates. Having a separate account for school purposes versus non-school purposes can deal with that quite quickly. >> Okay, so the main thing there, I think is take a look at Module 7. I think you'll find a lot of answers there. But just before we go, I just wanted to mention, Yall posted an interesting comment, and a lovely screen shot, about how I was looking at my iPad when we were actually answering the questions last week. And the question arose about how many presenters are relevant or useful. But, now in this MOOC we thought it's very important to share the experiences of a wide range of different teachers. And that's why we've taken the approach where we have several opinions in here. So I'm pretty comfortable that that is appropriate for this. You may, of course, not find that appropriate for your own purposes and that's where you can choose to narrow the field down. And the iPad is our notes on the question so forgive me if I got distracted, but I'm here with you. >> Yeah, he's here. >> Okay, so that's question one, thanks.