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Harnessing the power of new media for learning, teaching and research
Gráinne Conole, Leicester University12th June 2012, UNISA
Outline
• Characteristics of new media
• Harnessing the net for research
• A new approach to design
• Reflections and implications
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,
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?
What tools do you use for research?
• Terese iTunesU analysis of tweets about iTunesU in different languages
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 and facebook #fb
•Think about strategies to make the most of each of the following and then think about how you can do this both in a face-to-face and virtual context– Conferences– Networking– Publishing
Blending real and virtual
Conferences• Purpose: presentation & feedback• Network, network, network!• Potential collaborators & bid partners• Put in a symposium of experts• Expert validation workshops• Put papers/presentations online• Follow up contacts afterwards: email,
fb, Twitter, blogs, etc.• Work up into a research paper• Work the hashtag• Live blog or follow conference-related
blogs
A personal example
Networking• Build links with
international colleagues•Get on national-level
committees• Invite key researchers in
your field to be involved in a joint research activity• Invite people to give
seminars at your institution• Build connections online
via Twitter, facebook, etc. • Participate in online events• Leave comments on blogs
Publishing•Write books - edited or single authored (post drafts)•Become an editor for a special issue of an online
journal• Keep publication list up to date in your research
repository• Set up a writing group or workshop (real/virtual)•Co-write with lots of different people (using a wiki)•Disseminate publications via Tweet, fb etc • Post up drafts for comment on blogs etc• See Twitter, blogs, journals, books as complementary
GO OPEN!!!!
Conclusion
• Structured guidance to think about design
• The power of visualisation• Beyond content to activities and
experience• Iterative, creative and messy• Making designs explicit• Social media to foster
communication and collaboration
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
http://www.slideshare.net/GrainneConole/conole-workshop-jtelssConole, G. (forthcoming), Designing for learning in an open world, New York: Springer
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