the ‘f’ word in he: reflecting on the ‘sexing up’ of undergraduate education with facebook
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PowerPoint presentation by Anita Bacs, Karen Lipsedge and Tony McNeill for the CEMP Media Education Summit 2011.TRANSCRIPT
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Anita Bacs, Karen Lipsedge & Tony McNeill | 6th September 2011
The ‘f’ word in HE:
reflecting on the ‘sexing up’ of undergraduate education with Facebook
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The ‘f’ word in HE | Anita Bacs, Karen Lipsedge & Tony McNeill | 6th September 2011
The Facebook 'addict'
Anita Bacs
KU undergraduate
2008-2011
KU postgraduate 2011-
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The ‘f’ word in HE | Anita Bacs, Karen Lipsedge & Tony McNeill | 6th September 2011
The ‘reluctant’ Facebook user
Dr Karen Lipsedge
Principal Lecturer in Media and Communication andSchool of Humanities
Limited interest in any kind of technology.
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The ‘f’ word in HE | Anita Bacs, Karen Lipsedge & Tony McNeill | 6th September 2011
The ‘professional’ Facebook user
Tony McNeill
Principal Lecturer in Learning Technology
Interest in all sorts of technology – 'school tools' and 'cool tools'.
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The ‘f’ word in HE | Anita Bacs, Karen Lipsedge & Tony McNeill | 6th September 2011
The ‘f’ word in HE?
Facebook still centre of moral panics
(e.g. “Facebook generation” riots of August 2011)
Facebook as ‘improper’ or inappropriate in HE
(Hughes 2009; Selwyn 2009)
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The ‘f’ word in HE | Anita Bacs, Karen Lipsedge & Tony McNeill | 6th September 2011
‘Disruptive identity performances’
... Facebook was acting as a ready space for
resistance and the contestation of the asymmetrical
power relationship built into the established offline
positions of university, student and lecturer (Bourdieu
and Passeron 1977). (Selwyn 2009: 172)
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‘Identity incongruence’ (1)
... knowledge-related identity incongruence can arise
from incompatibility between identities performed
through personal or everyday knowledge and the
identities associated with knowledge production in
formal learning communities. (Hughes 2009: 301)
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The ‘f’ word in HE | Anita Bacs, Karen Lipsedge & Tony McNeill | 6th September 2011
‘Identity incongruence’ (2)
... while social software encourages dissemination of
learner-generated content, it does not necessarily
facilitate the challenging and reconstruction of that
content and the identification with new forms of
knowledge. (Hughes 2009: 301)
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Technology domains/spheres (1)
personal/social vernacular self-generated bottom-up
study/work imposed mandated top-down
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Adapted from Jones & Lea 2008
Technology domains/spheres (2)
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Why Facebook?
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Aims of pilot
to support induction and pre-induction
to facilitate the transition to HE
to help Level 4 students become an integral part of the M&CS
online community and develop a cohort identity
to ‘assist where people find offline sociality difficult’ (Miller,
2011:183)
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Our Facebook group (1)
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Our Facebook group (2)
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Our Facebook group (3)
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Our Facebook group (4)
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Problems?
students’ use of Facebook email facility
making transition to StudySpace (proactive weaning
– one colleague described the Facebook group as “a
great big apron string”)
The group’s popularity!
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Evaluation
Positive effect in 3 main areas:
students’ preparedness for induction week and lower levels
of anxiety about joining the University;
social integration/making new friends;
students’ perception of the course and of Kingston
University.
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Surprises?
students desired tutors’ involvement in group;
Facebook was used to establish new contacts;
most students read content rather than contributed;
students used the group flexibly to create communities within communities and for their own purposes beyond the initial pre-induction/induction period.
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3 conclusions
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References (1)
Baran, B. (2010). Facebook as a formal instructional environment. British Journal of Educational Technology, 41(6):146-149
Bassford, M. and Ivins, J. (2009). Encouraging formative peer review via social networking sites. British Journal of Educational Technology, 41(5): 67–69
Ellison, N. B. et al. (2007) “The benefits of Facebook ‘friends’: Social capital and college students’ use of online social network sites”, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 12(4) [Online]. Available at:http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol12/issue4/ellison.html (Accesssed: 05 June 2011).
Greenhow, C. and Robelia, E. (2009). Informal learning and identity formation in online social networks. Learning, Media and Technology, 34(2): 119–140.
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References (2)
Hughes, G. (2009). Social Software: New Opportunities for Challenging Social Inequalities in Learning? Learning, Media and Technology, 34(4): 291-305
Jones, S. and Lea, M.R. (2008). Digital Literacies in the Lives of Undergraduate Students: Exploring Personal and Curricular Spheres of Practice. The Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 6(3): 207-216. Retrieved 5 September, 2011, from http://www.ejel.org/Volume-6/v6-i3/JonesandLea.pdf
Mason, R. and Rennie, F. (2008). The E-learning Handbook: Social Networking for Higher Education: Resources for Higher Education. New York: Routledge.
Miller, D. (2011). Tales From Facebook. Cambridge: Polity.
Selwyn, N. (2009). Faceworking: exploring students’ education-related use of Facebook. Learning, Media and Technology, 34(2): 157–174.