John Cook

Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/johnnigelcook

Social Media and Mobile Technologies in Workplace Practices: Interpretations of What Counts as Good

Research

Technology Enhanced Learning Summer School #telss12 interactive lecture

Thursday 24 May, Estoril, Portugal

http://www.prolearn-academy.org/Events/summer-school-2012

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A cautionary tale!Formal & informal learning

Health Warningformal learning did this to me

7 years later & informal learning saves me!

7 years later & informal learning!Formal learning strikes back and did this to me 4 years ago!!

Reintegrated John? 2 years ago

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ResearchSelf taught bassplayer

PhD students

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Formal learning and/or learning in informal contexts

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Structure session Participants will be asked to put forward initial ideas on how they would

investigate a research question. I will then briefly present my own approach to researching the above

question and recount my recent experience of getting a paper about this work reviewed for a journal of international standing. The paper drew on a case study on people tagging in workplace learning.

Participants will be invited to critique my approach. I will summarise the lecture interactions, framing them in terms of

computer science, natural science and social science research perspectives.

The session will conclude by inviting participates to go away and consider the issues surrounding interpretations of what counts as good research from a TEL perspective.

BOYD: Bring Your Own Device

Smartphones, tablets, laptops ... With our increasingly mobile workforce, consumerisation in

IT has led to staff demanding to use their own devices for work - or for distractions during work breaks!

Citrix cites savings of up to 20% IBM claims 80,000 staff are now accessing its corporate

network using self-owned devices.

Given the emergent nature of the area The literature on the use of social media and mobile technologies in workplace practices is small.

The following question arises

What, if any, potential is there for the use of social media and mobile technology in informal, professional, work-based learning?

Talk to the person next to you for 2 minutes (take turns). Just few sentences:

1. Your discipline: xxx

2. How you would investigate the above question: xxx

There is no one correct answer!

Your discipline:

How you would investigate the above question:

Call on facebook for help to seed the debate

Your discipline: cybernetics How you would investigate the above question: turn it around: which of these technologies makes workplace/informal leaning more difficult? people will disagree, discuss, and use a lot of "but"-sentences. (the part behind the but is the interesting part).

Call on facebook for help to seed the debate

Your discipline: EducationHow you would investigate the above question: trainee teachers out on placement – interest in the different types of technologies they use/ don't use. Not many tweeters - but this would be a great way for them to keep up-to-date with Government legislation; the policy announcements from the Education Minister- (most weeks something new); to follow debate themes run by Education professors, Michael Rosen is a must, the TES, as well as pulling through fun/interesting/random threads to enliven their day..mobile is clearly the way forward. Full report www.ESCalate.ac.uk/8140

Call on facebook for help to seed the debate

Your discipline: Not givenHow you would investigate the above question: Read everything I've ever written...Ok this one is best! Toward a mobile Architecture of Participation with Nigel Ecclesfield & added Mike Sharples http://architectureofparticipation.wordpress.com/2010/09/10/towards-a-mobile-architecture-of-participation/

My own approach

I will now briefly present my own approach to researching the above question

Education-related. The paper drew on a case study on people tagging in workplace learning

Recount my recent experience of getting a paper about this work reviewed for a journal of international standing.

My own approach The paper provides a critical overview of key issues from the literature on

work-based learning, face-to-face and technology supported, as well as social (mobile) networking services with particular attention being paid to people tagging.

It then introduces an initial typology (checklist) of informal workplace learning in order to provide a frame for understanding social (mobile) network(ing) services in work-based learning.

Finally, a case study (taken from the literature) of People Tagging tool use in digital social networks in the European Commission funded MATURE project is used to illustrate aspects of our typology.

The Reviews

Reviewer 1: Accept minor amendments.Reviewer 2: Accept minor amendments, as Co-Editor of Special Issue thought Review 2 too harsh.Review 3: Reject & resubmit. Didn’t like it, comments showed from physical science and maybe expected all research to be done that way! But, some good questions raised that helped improve paper.

Made changes, different Reviewer 3 brought in, accepted …

Participants invited to critique my approach

Thoughts …

What is your Impact Factor? Cook, J. and Pachler, N. (2012). Online People Tagging: Social (Mobile)

Network(ing) Services and Work-based Learning. British Journal of Education Technology, 43(5).

Email john.cook@londonmet.ac.uk for Final Draft: Note that BJET is a high quality international journal: Impact Factor: 2.139; ISI

Journal Citation Reports Ranking: 2010: 11/177 (in Education & Educational Research).

“The impact factor, often abbreviated IF, is a measure reflecting the average number of citations to recent articles published in science and social science journals. It is frequently used as a proxy for the relative importance of a journal within its field, with journals with higher impact factors deemed to be more important than those with lower ones.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_factor accessed 16 May 2012

OR ?

I will now summarise the lecture interactions, framing them in terms of research perspectives:• computer science• natural science• social science

• Correct me if I got it wrong

The session now concludes by inviting participates to go away and consider the issues surrounding interpretations of what counts as good research from a TEL perspective.

Thank you …

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