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Using social media for learning, teaching and research
Gráinne ConoleBath Spa Innovating Pedagogy Seminar
9th March 2016
National Teaching
Fellow 2012 Ascilite fellow 2012EDEN fellow 2013
Outline
• Characteristics of new media• What is your digital network• Using social media for:– Learning– Teaching – Research
• Benefits and risks• Types of tools• Case studies• Blogs, Twitter and facebook
Activity
• What are the characteristics of new technologies?
• What are their implications for learning, teaching and research?
New media
Characteristics Implications
Conole and Alevizou, 2010
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• Technology immersed• Learning approaches: task-
orientated, experiential, just in time, cumulative, social
• Personalised digital learning environment
• Mix of institutional systems and Cloud-based tools and services
• Use of course materials with free resources
Sharpe, Beetham and De Freitas, 2010
Learner experience
EDUCAUSE study• Students drawn to
new technologies but rely on more traditional ones
• Consider technologies offer major educational benefits
• Mixed views of LMSs
http://www.educause.edu/studentsAndTechnologyInfographic
Game changers
• Harness the power of new media
• Need to rethink education• How can we reach more
learners, more effectively?• Impact of free resources,
tools and expertise?• New business models?• New digital literacies?
http://www.educause.edu/game-changers
Activity: What’s your digital network?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/factoryjoe/195492568/
My network
Activity: fb love it or hate it?
Pros• Overseas family, fun, quick
updates, time zones, search on names!!, snooping, contact with people you wouldn’t be in touch with otherwise
Cons• In your face, not sharing
everything, not preferred tool for many things, friends reunited, inappropriate, quality vs. quantity, overload, emotional outbursts,
What tools can students use for their learning?
What tools do you use for teaching?
What tools do you use for Research?
Activity: using new media for research• How would you use the following for research (i.e. data
collection, dissemination, discussion)?–Blogs–Facebook–Google+–LinkedIn–Academia.edu–Twitter–Flickr and Youtube–Diigo–Mandeley–Dropbox–Others?
Social media
• Range of internet-based tools that allow people to create, co-create, share and interact with information
Benefits of social media
• Students can communicate with their peers• Researchers can be part of a global
community• Students can use to demonstrate their
competences• Universities can use to interact with a variety
of audiences
Risks of social media
• Ethical, privacy and security issues• Time consuming • Inappropriate use• Ownership• Constantly changing
Types of tools
• Social networking tools – e.g. facebook• Reflective tools – e.g. blogs and Twitter• Gaming tools and virtual worlds – e.g.
SecondLife• Communication tools – e.g. WhatsApp• Consumer tools – e.g. price comparison sites
Case studies
• Recruitment and transition to HE– Social searching for recruitment– Support prior to enrolment – Peer mentoring
• Research– Part of a scholarly community– Development of a professional profile– Disseminating research– Resource discovery– Undertaking research
Case studies• Employability
– Social Media Knowledge Exchange– Development of a professional network
• Public engagement– Dissemination to general public
• Enhancing learning and teaching– Extending beyond the classroom– Peer review – Twitter as a back channel– Keeping in touch when on placement – Wikis to co-create knowledge
• Keeping in touch with Alumni
Blogs• Of the moment
reflections• Digital archive• The power of peer review• Record of events, reviews
and resources• Wider audience reach
and hence profile• Link into facebook and
Twitter• Complements traditional
publication routes
e4innovation.com
gconole.wordpress,com
Bloggers worth readingM. Weller
G. Siemens
T. Anderson
Using facebook
Ideas for harnessing Web 2.0?Twitter
Doing a session on using social media for learning, teaching and research, any good links?
Anna Mathews @anna_mathews 22h22 hours agoHi @gconole You might find this link http://www.ucisa.ac.uk/socialmedia more useable @gillferrell @ucisa
Final thoughts• Participatory and social media enable new forms of
communication and collaboration• Communities in these spaces are complex and
distributed• Learners and teachers need to develop new digital
literacy skills to harness their potential•We need to rethink how we design, support and assess
learning•Open, participatory and social media can provide
mechanisms for us to share and discuss teaching and research ideas in new ways•We are seeing a blurring of boundaries:
teachers/learners, teaching/research, real/virtual spaces, formal/informal modes of communication and publication
References• UCISA social media toolkit
– http://www.ucisa.ac.uk/~/media/Files/publications/social_media/344996%20UCISA%20-%20Book%20v8%208-12-15-final.ashx
• M. Weller - The digital scholar– http://oro.open.ac.uk/29664/
• EDUCAUSE– http://er.educause.edu/articles/2009/12/horton-hears-a-
tweet• Using Twitter to enhance social presence
– http://patricklowenthal.com/publications/Using_Twitter_to_Enhance_Social_Presence.pdf
