Social Media Marketing MOOC
How can you plan and execute a successful social-media strategy using various online platforms? How do you advertise on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn? How do you design and manage a YouTube Channel? These are just some of the areas that will be covered in the Introduction to Social Media Marketing MOOC, which starts 10 January 2022.
“We are pleased to offer the second edition of the MOOC on social media marketing. Over 3,000 participants from 80 countries joined the previous course offering,” said Dr Sanjaya Mishra, COL Education Specialist: E-learning.
The course is open to anyone interested in developing insights into using social media for marketing and communication. It is suitable for teachers who want to build on their knowledge and practice in teaching and learning with technology.
“Considering that social media marketing is among the in-demand job skills, the MOOC will be of particular interest for the Commonwealth youth who want to develop skills in using social media effectively,” noted Dr Mishra.
Course Contents
Week 1:
Introduction to Social Media Marketing and Strategy
Learners will investigate social media marketing and plan effective strategies for social media by:
- Understanding the fundamentals of social media marketing;
- Exploring various social media platforms; and
- Developing a draft social media strategy.
Week 2:
Marketing on Facebook: Designing and Managing Facebook Advertising Campaigns
Learners will explore the use of Facebook for marketing by:
- Identifying the strengths and features of Facebook that make it a powerful platform;
- Taking a step-by-step approach to build Facebook page for marketing; and
- Designing and evaluating an effective Facebook Campaign.
Week 3:
Advertising on Twitter: Designing, managing and monitoring Twitter campaigns
Learners will examine the use of Twitter for marketing by:
- Understanding the essentials of Twitter for advertisement;
- Systematically design advertisements that reach the target audience; and
- Creating a business profile and campaign on Twitter.
Week 4:
Advertise on LinkedIn: Setup, Managing and Monitoring Campaigns
Learners will evaluate LinkedIn as a social media for marketing by:
- Examining the significance of a professional network for brand awareness and marketing;
- Creating a LinkedIn page and optimising for the targeted followers.
- Designing LinkedIn marketing campaigns by selecting appropriate objectives and audience.
Week 5:
YouTube Marketing: Designing and Managing YouTube Channel and advertising Campaigns
Learners will actively engage in learning the potential of YouTube for social media marketing by:
- Creating a YouTube channel for advertisement;
- Using Google Ads for improving the performance of campaigns; and
- Finalise a Social Media marketing strategy for specific contexts.
Target audience
This course is designed for anyone interested in understanding and developing insights to use social media for marketing and communication. However, people engaged in start-ups, budding entrepreneurs, small-scale business owners, NGOs, Government organisations interested in using social media for the growth of their business or any social cause at local, national or global level, would benefit from this Massive Open Online Course.
Outcomes of this Course
After completion of this course participants are expected to be able to:
- Develop social media marketing strategy for achieving organisation goals.
- Set up, design and monitor the Facebook Pages and Facebook advertising campaigns.
- Create, manage and monitor Twitter marketing campaigns.
- Design, monitor and analyse LinkedIn advertising campaigns.
- Design and manage YouTube video advertisements campaigns and YouTube channel.
Certificates
Two levels of certification are available based on your level of participation and completion of the tasks/activities:
- Certificate of Participation: requires a minimum score of 60% on at least 3 quizzes (out of 5) and participation in at least 3 discussion forums.
- Certificate of Completion: requires a minimum score of 60% on at least 4 quizzes (out of 5), participation in at least 3 discussion forums and successful completion of the assignment in Week 5 (the creation and sharing of a social media strategy)
Meet Your Instructor:
Dr Tejinderpal Singh is Associate Professor at University Business School, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India. Dr Singh is a successful MOOC instructor having developed and delivered the ‘Digital Marketing’ MOOC — ranked amongst the top 15 online courses worldwide (amongst top 5 in India) by the Class Central on the SWAYAM platform of the Ministry of Education, Government of India. He has over 15 years of teaching and research experience in marketing, e-learning and qualitative research. With a PhD from Punjabi University, Patiala (India), he also serves as Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Marketing and Business Communications (IJMBC). He is a Certified Professional Trainer of Qualitative Data Analysis (ATLAS.ti) and published widely in various journals of national and international repute.