Short Papers (20 minutes plus 10 for questions)
Researching the contribution of social work education to the digital socialisation of students in preparation for practice in the technological age
Amanda Taylor – @amltaylor66
University Central Lancashire
Throughout social work education digital knowledge and skills are at some level acknowledged; however much remains incidental and unrealised. This study seeks to explore how social work education is digitally socialising students for future employment. Furthermore, it aims to shape and influence curriculum design for the connected age.
Periscope vs Facebook Live – it isn’t a grudge match
Andrew Smith – @teraknor
The Open University
Periscope is to Twitter as Facebook Live is (obviously) to Facebook. Each has pros/cons and learning affordances. The aim is to explore how social media video streaming can be incorporated into a blended learning experience. Also focussing on benefits/impact in terms of community reach and (occasional) technical issues.
Empowering learning using multiple choice questions
David Biggins – @cel_bu
Bournemouth University
Lynne Truelove
Sheffield Hallam University
This paper assesses how student learning can be empowered by creating and answering multiple choice questions using Peerwise. An evidence-based and objective review of how Peerwise has been used in two HEIs will allow attendees to form a balanced view of the suitability of Peerwise in their teaching and learning.
Social media as a critical future learning space
Andrew Middleton @andrewmid
Sheffield Hallam University
Social media, according to this case study research, is becoming a critical dimension of a connected hybrid learning space. This can be understood as a learner defined equilibrium in which space is characterised as a physical, digital and social dynamic. We will explore the role of social media in it.
Study-Space – A private Social Media App
Keith Brown – @KeithBrownBath
Dr Julie Letchford – @JulieLetchford
Dr Albert Bolhuis – @microbol
University of Bath
The Study-Space app is internal to the university and currently available to a single cohort of some 140 students and 3 teaching staff for a programme unit. It is an experiment to determine if a social-media app can deliver an effective peer support community in a private and closed setting.
Please note that Keith Brown and colleagues will also be presenting this as a Poster…….
Understanding lurkers in online learning communities
Sarah Honeychurch – @NomadWarMachine
Aras Bozkurt – @ArasBozkurt
Lenandlar Singh – @Lenandlar
University of Glasgow
This presentation aims to look at motivations for lurking in online courses and to present these lurkers in a positive light. Our main focus is an appreciation of how some lurkers can transition into more active members of a community, and strategies to encourage this.
“Sowing seeds for a bumper harvest” – an example of students as co-creators.
Kerry Sorby – @kerrysorby
Jessica Wells –
Josh Makuch – @
Maria Parks – @jaffaparks
York St John University
Aim: This presentation will share the experiences of a staff-student collaborative project that developed social media platforms within Occupational Therapy.
Objectives: We will share how students were empowered to
- Inform the development of these platforms.
- engage in the editorial board and publications (blogs)
- use social media to disseminate good practice
Blogging as a summative assignment in Teacher Education: developing the professional, the academic and the digital.
Clare Fenwick – @csf0961
Mary Briggs – @mjb9756
Oxford Brookes University
This paper identifies the contributions of a summative blogging assignment on the development of professional reflection, academic writing skills and the digital literacy of second year trainee teachers as they explore and connect with a wider community of practice. Reporting the development of the process including addressing emerging issues.
Effect of a student-centred social media intervention on intrinsic motivation and motivational climate of first year undergraduate students.
Antonio Calderon – @acalderon_pe
Lourdes Merono – @Lourdes_Mer_Gar
UCAM Catholic University of Murcia (Spain)
Issues in technology and integration are important and crucial to teacher education and effective teaching (Teo, 2015). The purpose of this paper was to analyse the effect of a student-centred social media intervention on intrinsic motivation and motivational climate of first year undergraduate students.
WeLearn: the application of WeChat to empower social learning during a year abroad.
Duo Luan – @duoluan
Simon Horrocks – @horrocks_simon
University of Wales: Trinity Saint David
This paper examines experience at the University of Wales: Trinity Saint David of supporting students during a year abroad using the popular Chinese app WeChat. Focussing on peer-to-peer and student-staff engagement, the paper aims to identify the benefits and challenges of social learning in this context.
Becoming digitally capable in a social world: are we there yet? A systematic review of the literature
Dr Stuart Oultram – Dr Omnia Allam – Rev. Dr David Taylor and Mr Ken Linkman
University of Liverpool
Aim This paper aims to identity and present the current state of the art of using social media in healthcare education.
Objectives To identify the key educational and ethical implications of adapting social media for learning in healthcare programmes.
Key focus University based healthcare programmes (e.g. medicine & nursing)
The role of Social Media as a Learning Support System in Project Based Learning
Sue Beckingham – @suebecks
Sheffield Hallam University
This paper considers seven key stages of a project and demonstrates how a digital toolkit which includes social media can be used to support learning at each stage and encourage the engagement with continuous feedback and reflection as a natural process of project based learning.
Educating Professionals for a Networked Society: Investigation of the Tensions and Ambiguities between Professionalism and Social Media Practices of Final Year Pre-Service Professional Students
Sara MacLean – @SaraBBMac
University of Stirling
This paper will investigate the dynamics of educating for a risk averse as well as connected environment that current professional practice encompasses. It aims to understand how pre-service professional students understand and negotiate the boundaries of digital professionalism to help inform how we educate future professionals.
Language teachers on Twitter: developing a community of practice
Fernando Rosell-Aguilar – @frosellaguilar
The Open University
This paper shows how a group of language teachers use Twitter as a tool for professional development through the #mfltwitterati hashtag. Based on data collected through a survey (n=116) and interviews (n=11), it describes and evaluates the impact of their Twitter network on their teaching practices.
Language learners on Twitter: practices and beliefs
Fernando Rosell-Aguilar – @frosellaguilar
The Open University
This paper reports on a study (n=376) of language learners who use Twitter: profile, practices (how often they use Twitter, how, where, using what devices, in what language), and beliefs about how helpful Twitter is as a tool to contribute to their language learning experience. The results show positive beliefs about the use of Twitter as a language learning tool.
Empowering student learning through the development of a social media community to support computing students
Thomas Lancaster – @DrLancaster
Staffordshire University
Although computing courses commonly provide students with a wide mix of technical skills, it is essential to empower students with the skills needed to address emerging industry needs. This session will discuss and evaluate the development of a student social media learning community, aimed at encouraging hackathon participation.
Social Media used as part of Co-Created Undergraduate Learning
Tom Davidson – @tomdavidson
Thomas Rowledge – @tdrowledge
Lisa Harris – @lisaharris
University of Southampton
Combining Social Media and learning that is co-created by staff and students is very powerful and helps to drive innovation and change. This paper reports on the results of a project at the University of Southampton Business School which is doing exactly that.
‘With a little help from my followers’ – Facilitating the #LTHEChat
Chris Rowell – @Chri5rowell
Regent’s University London
Debbie Baff – @debbaff
Swansea University
Sue Beckingham – @suebecks
Sheffield Hallam University
Neil Withnell – @neilwithnell
University of Salford
Kate Soper – @KatesSoper
Manchester Metropolitan University
Chris Jobling – @cpjobling
Swansea University
Ian Tindal – @iantindal
Anglia Ruskin University
The #LTHEchat is a lively twitterchat that explores important issues in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, for staff and students. This short paper will share how #LTHEchat empowers a community of practice to embrace informal learning and supports co-learners to take ownership of their continuing professional development.
Using YouTube as a social media tool to support and enhance students’ learning
Dr Jonathan Wilson – @WilsoJS
The University of East Anglia
This paper reports on using YouTube as part of an undergraduate marketing module. It will focus on how VideoScribe YouTube videos and social media can be used to support and enhance learning.
The paper will present an overview of results from student focus groups on their social learning experience.
Introducing Twitter as an assessed component of Digital Professionalism in the nursing curriculum.
Professor Ray Jones – @rjonesplymough
Plymouth University
This will be a virtual presentation Further details to follow.
Although many conference attendees will assume that use of social media in higher education is empowering, many students entering nursing do not see its relevance and expect to be told to avoid its use. We introduced Twitter as part of Digital Professionalism, with some assessment, into the nursing curriculum.
Engaging undergraduates in research: the use of Twitter as a data collection method
Alyson Brown – @alybrown
Brian Addison – @brianaddison75
Katie MacLure – James Andrews – Derek Stewart and Sarah Pederson co-authors
RGU Aberdeen
Aim: To share experiences of using Twitter as a data collection tool in an undergraduate research project.
Key Focus: In this session presenters will discuss their experiences of running an undergraduate research project using Twitter as a data collection tool. Experiences of engaging students in this data collection method will be shared along with the outcomes of this project. Participants will be invited to consider how using Twitter as a data collection tool could be usefully adopted in other areas/disciplines.
Please note that Alyson Brown and her colleague will also be presenting this as a Thunderstorm…….
The use of social media to help healthcare students settle in to university
Emma Jones – @jones23emma
James Meek – @jamesmeek1
James Hill –
Chris Smith – @cjsmith30
University of Central Lancashire
The aim of this study was to capture healthcare students’ perspectives on how social media might help them settle into university life. Students were asked to draw upon their own experience of using social media in the few weeks before and after enrolment in their responses to an online survey.
Workshops (1 hour)
A socially mediated workshop about developing a social media workshop.
Gill Ferell – @gillferrell UCISA
Julie Adams Staffordshire University
Bob Booth University of Sheffield
Fiona Strawbridge – @fstrawbridge
Aimed at supporting staff development or team planning this workshop will show how resources in the UCISA Social Media Toolkit can be tailored to your needs. We will use Padlet to collaboratively design a workshop agenda and add supporting resources. Outputs will be freely available to use later.
To view the padlet and add your thoughts in advance of the session please go to: https://padlet.com/gillferrell/SocMedHE_Workshop_Outline_UCISA
Student Ambassadors for Digital Literacy: developing student-staff partnerships and empowering LSE undergraduates
Dr Jane Secker – @jsecker
Andra Fry and Sarah Ney
London School of Economics and Political Science
This workshop provides an opportunity to learn about a staff-student partnership project and to evaluate digital literacy activities and the use of social media using two frameworks – the Jisc viewpoints cards and the Visitors and Residents continuum.
To hashtags and beyond – using social media to create professional learning networks in undergraduate trainee teachers.
Sarah Wright – @sarah_wright1
Edge Hill University
A practical exploration of social media tools and the impact they have had on undergraduate pre-service teachers. From hashtags and edu chats to lists and online communities, how can social media shape and service the teachers of the future?
Joining up the hashtags: Developing a social media strategy in higher education
Emma Jones – @jones23emma
University of Central Lancashire
This workshop aims to jointly develop and share a best practice guide for developing social media strategies in higher educational settings. We aim to set up a steering group following the conference to develop a strategy for higher education and to disseminate this at future conferences and through publications.
The Conference LearningWheel: Collating contextualised digital resources and capturing a space and time for educators, students and practitioners
Deborah Kellsey – @DebKellsey
University of Central Lancashire
Amanda Taylor – @AMLTaylor66
University Central Lancashire
At #SocMedHE15 @DebKellsey presented the original LearningWheel concept http://learningwheel.co.uk/
An accessible graphic device that was developed and designed to bridge the gap between digital resources, digital literacies and contemporary learning spaces.
The SocMedHE15 ‘Research Methods’ LearningWheel created during last years conference is to date the most popular wheel created having had almost 1000 views across the globe including: UK, USA, Canada, Spain, Germany, Ireland, Australia and China.
As a consequence of @DebKellsey connecting with @AMLTaylor66, who has an interest in the notion of connected conferences, at the inaugural #SocMedHE15 event the conference LearningWheel was born.
The conference LearningWheel concept is a graphical representation of conference content, generated through the contributions of participating delegates, both those in virtual and physical attendance.
The purpose of the proposed workshop is to generate conference content and to illustrate content curation.
Thunderstorms (5 minutes each in a session with 10 minutes for joint questions)
Teaching Junior Doctors the Benefits and Barriers of the Social Web
Andrew Tattersall – @andy_Tattersall
The University of Sheffield
The presentation will showcase the teaching I deliver to 4th year medical students at The University of Sheffield. The Masterclass ILAs (Inquiry Based Learning Activity) are to help students understand the issues relating to patients and health professionals engaging with the social and mobile web as part of their healthcare.
Read more herehttps://blogs.shu.ac.uk/socmedhe/16-teaching-junior-doctors-the-benefits-and-barriers-of-the-social-web/
Using the Twitter Poll function as a Mock Quiz to aid student formative self-assessment.
David Strafford – @davidstrafford
Sheffield Hallam University
The poll feature on Twitter is an interactive and fun way to vote in multiple choice question scenarios, so this thunderstorm will consider its effectiveness for students to test their learning before a phase test assessment. Students will be encouraged to take part in a mock quiz on Twitter then answer a survey as to whether it facilitated their learning.
Increasing connectivity and building social capitol @BCUNursingteam
Robert Mapp – @robertmapp5
Lisa Abbott – @lisaabbott75
Birmingham City University
This thunderstorm will give an overview of the creation of the @BCUNursingteam twitter page, which aimed to increase the connectivity of over 2000 student nurses and empower them to engage with each other, academic staff, the university, employers and the nursing community. We will share our challenging, enjoyable journey of hosting this page.
Library live! Empowering distance learners and building communities through use of Facebook chat events
Helen Clough – @helenalex
The Open University
Library Services at the Open University (OU) uses scheduled Facebook chat events to teach library skills, engage with distance learners and help to build communities. We will present practical tips for running these events and our analysis of their value to distance learners.
‘Full connection with the iGeneration’: WhatsApp and the student-teacher relationship
Antonio Calderon – @acalderon_pe
Lourdes Merono – @Lourdes_Mer_Gar
UCAM Catholic University of Murcia (Spain)
The mobile app WhatsApp is one of the most used worldwide. From April 2013 to February 2016 there has been a growth from 200 million to one billion of active users. The purpose of this paper was to describe the educational uses of WhatsApp with first year undergraduate degree students, from the perspective of the lecturer.
Viral Videos for Clients
Chris Hall – @goldblach
Luke Regan – @lukescottregan
Sheffield Hallam University
An exploration of the issues surrounding the production of Viral Videos by first year students for external client briefs. Outlining the production and decision making processes and focussing on the lessons learnt.
Please note that Chris Hall and his colleague will also be presenting this as a Poster…….
Engaging undergraduates in research: the use of Twitter as a data collection method
Alyson Brown – @alybrown
Brian Addison – @brianaddison75
Katie MacLure – James Andrews – Derek Stewart and Sarah Pederson co-authors
RGU Aberdeen
Aim: To share experiences of using Twitter as a data collection tool in an undergraduate research project.
Key Focus: In this session presenters will discuss their experiences of running an undergraduate research project using Twitter as a data collection tool. Experiences of engaging students in this data collection method will be shared along with the outcomes of this project. Participants will be invited to consider how using Twitter as a data collection tool could be usefully adopted in other areas/disciplines.
Please note that Alyson Brown and her colleague will also be presenting this as a Short Paper…….
Posters
‘I love the challenges’: First year undergraduate students perception of the socio-digital technology-based tasks
Antonio Calderon – @acalderon_pe
Lourdes Merono – @Lourdes_Mer_Gar
UCAM Catholic University of Murcia (Spain)
The purpose of this paper was to analyse the perception of first year undergraduate degree students about their learning after experiencing a semester course with the ‘socio-digital technology-based tasks’ (mini-challenges).
Viral Videos for Clients
Chris Hall – @goldblach
Luke Regan – @lukescottregan
Sheffield Hallam University
An exploration of the issues surrounding the production of Viral Videos by first year students for external client briefs. Outlining the production and decision making processes and focussing on the lessons learnt.
Please note that Chris Hall and his colleague will also be presenting this as a Thunderstorm…….
Does a programme specific social media campaign, empower learners choose their preferred course?
Maria Parks – @Jaffaparks
Helen Jennings – @YSJOT
York St John University
This poster will provide a summary of the first phase of a longitudinal study, which will explore the degree to which, digital media and specifically, programme specific social media campaigns were influential in helping the applicants decide on applying and accepting offers on the occupational therapy BSc(Hons) degree.
Study-Space – A private Social Media App
Keith Brown – @KeithBrownBath
Dr Julie Letchford – @JulieLetchford
Dr Albert Bolhuis – @microbol
University of Bath
The Study-Space app is internal to the university and currently available to a single cohort of some 140 students and 3 teaching staff for a programme unit. It is an experiment to determine if a social-media app can deliver an effective peer support community in a private and closed setting.
Please note that Keith Brown and colleagues will also be presenting this as a Short Paper…….