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10 Open Courseware Classes Every Social Media Junkie Should Read
October 21, 2009 at 12:15 pm

By now, almost everyone has heard of social media. Whether you are socializing with friends of Facebook, keeping everyone updated with Twitter, or simply bookmarking sites on Delicious, social media is a great way to connect with people all around the world.

Social media is quickly becoming an integral part of many people’s daily lives. However, that does not mean that everyone knows how to use it to its fullest potential, especially for business, PR and marketing. There is a lot to learn about using social media and that is why so many open courseware classes are available for social media junkies.

It does not matter if you are interested in learning how to interact with social media, or if you are and old pro looking to expand your social media skills to learn about marketing and other ideas, you will find a great number of resources are available to help you learn it all. Now, it is time to find out about the open courseware classes that every social media junkie should read.

Getting Started

If you are a novice junkie, you will find these courses on social media basics helpful:

1. Virtual Communities/Social Media, University of California, Berkeley
With this course, you will learn all about virtual communities including how they are built and maintained.
2. Introduction to Media Studies, MIT
This course is perfect for people who want to learn more about producers of culture and critical consumers. You will learn about the functions of media, the nature of mediated communication, media’s place in society as well as the history of media transformations.

Learning More

Social media is also a great platform for enhancing your education on a number of different subjects; here are some courses to help you learn more:

3. New Media, Social Media, and Learning Syllabus, Open Content
With this course, you can learn about blogging, RSS, Wikis and more.
4. Blogs, Wikis, New Media for Learning, Utah State University
This course will help you understand a number of different technologies from social bookmarking tools to screencasts.

Creating Social Media

If you are interested in the development of social media, you may enjoy these courses:

5. Human-Computer Interaction, Central Queensland University
By following this course, you will learn a lot of useful information about designing for user interaction.
6. Relation Machines, MIT
In this course, you can learn about building relational machines using a mixture of critique and studio-style design.
7. Software Engineering for Web Applications
Here you can learn about designing and building a dynamic website featuring a database back end.

Be Interactive

You can learn about interacting through social media:

8. The Social in Social Science, The Open University
With this course, you will learn about social scientific studies.
9. Dynamics of Social Systems, Rice University
This course will teach you about engineering and science that you can apply to social systems.
10. Social Psychology, UCLA
With this course you will get insight into the psychology of groups and social interaction.

If you spend several hours of your days logging on to one social media site or another, you need to know how you can benefit from this time. Visit these sites and many more to learn how to get the most out of your social media experience.

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