Celebrating innovative

scholarship through social mediaSue Beckingham SFHEA FSEDA CMALT | @suebecks | Sheffield Hallam University

#ESLTIS17 Enhancing Student Learning Through Innovative Scholarship Conference

Abstract

The focus of this paper will consider the increasing relevance of digital and social

scholarship, and why this should be encouraged.

Teaching focused academics who practice the scholarship of teaching, share reflective

practice in order to enhance the teaching and learning of others. Traditionally this may be

shared through publications and conference presentations. However, digital technology

and social media has the potential to extend the reach of these outputs enabling the

dissemination of an individual's work to reach a much wider audience.

Open reflective practice through social media allows scholars to make their work more

visible, findable and easily shared. Whilst the ripple effect may be far reaching, in order to

enhance learning it is important to also provide forums for discussion and question

asking, inquiry and investigation, which are subjected to critical evaluation. Engagement

in this scholarly process can encourage innovation and changes in practice that span

different disciplines and geographical locations.

The very nature of social media as an open space also serves to celebrate teaching

excellence – both the scholarship and practice – in a variety of formats.

Scholarship

of Discovery

Scholarship

of Integration

Scholarship

of Application

Scholarship

of Teaching

The quest of research,

inquiry and investigation

in search of new

knowledge

Making connections across

disciplines and advancing

knowledge through synthesis

of information

Application, interaction and

development of theory and

practice; engaging peers

and community

Transmission of knowledge and

also transforming and extending

it; as well as the study of

teaching and learning.

Boyer 1990

Defining the scholarship of engagement

"The scholarship of engagement means

connecting the rich resources of the

university to our most pressing social,

civic and ethical problems, to our

children, to our schools, to our teachers

and to our cities..."

(Boyer 1996:19-20)

QAA 2013:14

academic and/or professional expertise

engagement with the pedagogic development of

their discipline e.g. professional bodies

knowledge and understanding of current research and advanced

scholarship in their discipline area which directly informs and enhances teaching

staff development and appraisal aimed at enabling

them to develop and enhance their professional

competence and scholarship

experience of curriculum development and

assessment design

engagement with activities of other providers of higher

education e.g. as external examiners

Scholarship and the pedagogical

effectiveness of academic staff

"Digital scholarship is the use of digital

evidence and method, digital authoring, digital

publishing, digital curation and preservation,

and digital use and reuse of scholarship.

And new-model scholarly communication is

what results when we put those digital practices

into the processes of production, publishing,

curation, and use of scholarship."

)Smith Rumsey 2011:2

Towards a Framework for the Co-creation of Open Scholarship

Aggregate new forms of knowledge through the co-creation of research

agendas

Performing creative work in education

Identifying useful domains for research

Publishing collaboratively inpeer- edited fora

Dynamically supporting new

infrastructures for learning

Enable the use knowledge across

disciplines.

Preparing comprehensive

literature reviews and undertaking data mining analysis

Producing Open Education Resources

(OER) & Content Creation Tools

Enable generative network effects to

occur

Aid society and professions in addressing problems through serving

community and public needs and purposes

Mentoring colleagues collaboratively

Serving industry or government as an external consultant

Assuming leadership roles in professional

organizations

Empowering learners, through co-creation to

become future scholars

Working with community groups and on public engagement

strategies

Use network effect to transform practice

Promote Teaching as a reflective and dialogic

practice promoting learning

Advancing learning theory through

contextual research and practice

Collaborating in the design and delivery of

courses & learning programmes

Brokering new learning processes &

Developing Open Students

Designing and implementing

responsive assessment systems

Participating in the perpetual beta of

knowledge creation through the co-creation

of learning

Engaging and collaborating in peer

networks

Engaging in activity to develop, disrupt or join up established fields

Enable Epistemic Cognition to be a part

of evolving subject frameworks

Creating infrastructure for future learning and

research

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Visual adapted by @suebecks from:

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for-cocreating-open-scholarship

A professional expertise which others could use

A problem or opportunity where a combination of professional expertise will be more effective

An event or a publication where a greater range of

perspectives will illuminate the topic from more angles, building a

richer and more productive picture of what may be done

cooperation

Adapted from Baume 2017

Open scholarship

A shift away from mass 'all staff' emails....

To open blogging where scholarly work

can be tagged and searched by topic.

Easily shared through automated

dissemination via Twitter and other

social media channels. Option to follow

blogs and subscribe to email alerts

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evaluation

collaborative

investigation

asking

questions

open

inquiry

Social scholarship

through digital

engagement

Scholarship

of Discovery

Scholarship

of Integration

Scholarship

of Application

Scholarship

of Teaching

Invites explicit review where

scholarly work is openly

accessible and implicit review

through tagging, bookmarking,

favouriting.

Facilitates large scale data

sharing and mining,

collaboratively, globally and

across disciplines.

Offers spaces for digital

open dialogues addressing

community and global

challenges

Precipitate amplification and

disruption of existing practices.

Foster open and shared

pedagogical practices.

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Social Scholarship: social media affordances

Extending the reach of scholarly

outputs using social media

views

likes commentsdownloads

Consider giving your work a

Creative Commons licence so

it can be re-used

Analytics

Catherine Cronin @catherinecronin

http://catherinecronin.net/blog/

Academic reflective blogging

Dr Laura Pasquini @laurapasquini

https://techknowtools.wordpress.com

Reflective

blogging

Twitter feed

sharing others

work

Professional

online

identities

Students as researchers blogging

@LTHEchat #LTHEchat

Interactive discussions

about scholarship

https://lthechat.com/

Digital

narratives can

be shared in

innovative ways

using text,

images, video

and audio

EXAMPLES OF SOCIAL MEDIA CHANNELS

YouTube

Skype Periscope Snapchat

Facebook GitHub Behance Google+

Pinterest

FlickrInstagramVimeo

TumblrBlogger LinkedIn Twitter

cooperation

inspirationcreativity

transparencyvision

connectedness

Digital Scholarship - potential outcomes

Overcoming barriers for new users of social media

'Listening in' - observe how others are interacting.

Positive silent engagement is a valuable part of everyone's

development.

ONLINE PRESENCE

Create a digital online presence

PROFESSIONAL IDENTITY

Develop a digital professional identity to showcase your academic work

PERSONAL LEARNING NETWORK

Build a personal learning network by connecting with other academics

NETWORKS OF PRACTICE

Interact by discussing shared topics of interest

Steps to becoming a digital scholar

Acknowledge the digital scholarship,

teaching excellence and student learning

gains shared by peers and students.

Interact by commenting, asking questions,

or signposting related information that may

be useful.

Share the

digital

narratives

with others

in your

network

Engaging with digital scholarship

Consider how you can work

out loud and share your

learning journey with others

Any questions

References

• Boyer, E. L. (1990) Scholarship Reconsidered: priorities for the professoriate, Princeton, NJ: Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. https://depts.washington.edu/gs630/Spring/Boyer.pdf

• Boyer, E. L. (1996) ‘The scholarship of engagement’, Journal of Public Outreach, 1(1), pp. 11-20. http://openjournals.libs.uga.edu/index.php/jheoe/article/view/253/238

• Garnett, F. & Ecclesfield, N. (2012). Towards a framework for co-creating open scholarship. Research in Learning Technology. http://www.researchinlearningtechnology.net/index.php/rlt/article/view/7795/10499

• Greenhow, C., & Gleason, B. (2014). Social scholarship: Reconsidering scholarly practices in the age of social media. British Journal of Educational Technology, 45(3), 392-402.

• Quality Assurance Agency (2013) Guidance on Scholarship and the Pedagogical Effectiveness of Staff: expectations for foundation degree awarding powers and for taught degree-awarding powers, Gloucester: QAA. http://www.qaa.ac.uk/en/Publications/Documents/Guidance-FDAP-TDAP.pdf

• Smith Rumsey, A. (2011) New-Model Scholarly Communication: Roadmap for Change. http://www.uvasci.org/institutes-2003-2011/SCI-9-Road-Map-for-Change.pdf

Sue Beckingham | @suebecks

Educational Developer and Senior Lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University

with a research interest in the use of social media in education.

Blog: http://socialmediaforlearning.com/

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/suebeckingham