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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
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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
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Activity
• What are the characteristics of new technologies?
• What are their implications for learning, teaching and research?
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New media
Characteristics• Lots out there!• LinkedIn – what the
benefits?• A lot of superficial use• Time consuming and
distracting• Need to be disciplined with
the use of social media
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
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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
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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
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Activity: What’s your digital network?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/factoryjoe/195492568/
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My network
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Activity: fb love it or hate it?
Pros• Sharing issues• Focus on personal interests,
like music
Cons• Don’t use enough• Sharing personal stuff • Trivial posts
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What tools can students use for their learning?
• Don’t use Minerva enough• Email• Google to find relevant
resources• Fb and Twitter • Phone• Multi-tasking across tools• Phone at the centre of their
learning• YouTube and free resources
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What tools do you use for teaching?
• Google, YouTube• Minerva• PowerPoint• Guest speakers• Skype for tutorials• Students like videos, but
keep under 10 minutes
http://e4innovation.com/?p=800
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What tools do you use for Research?
• Google, Google Scholar• Library• Dragon voice activated
software• Skype
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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?
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Social media
• Range of internet-based tools that allow people to create, co-create, share and interact with information
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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
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Risks of social media
• Ethical, privacy and security issues• Time consuming • Inappropriate use• Ownership• Constantly changing
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Bloggers worth readingM. Weller
G. Siemens
T. Anderson
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Using facebook
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Ideas for harnessing Web 2.0?Twitter
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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
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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
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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