Abstract
Social media is pervasive in all aspects of modern life, including health, education, parenting, entertainment personal relationships and current affairs. In Higher Education however, social media is becoming a site of tension between those pursuing connected and innovative educational practice on one hand and an increasingly constrained policy environment reacting to reputational damage resulting from subversive and risky online behaviour by students and staff on the other. Social media has polarised academics, many of whom dismiss it as time-wasting and trivialising academic work and others who embrace it as an open and evolving form of scholarship and academic practice. Students engage with it for learning despite the expected norms of traditional academic practice. This symposium will highlight and explore key issues dominating current debates around the use and misuse of social media in Higher Education drawing on the wisdom of the crowd to find solutions to such challenges.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Conference Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference of Innovation, Practice and Research in the Use of Educational Technologies in Tertiary Education |
Place of Publication | Tugun, Qld |
Publisher | Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education |
Pages | 654-655 |
Number of pages | 2 |
Publication status | Published - 2016 |
Externally published | Yes |
Event | Annual Conference of the Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education 2016 - University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia Duration: 27 Nov 2016 → 30 Nov 2016 Conference number: 33rd http://2016conference.ascilite.org/ (Conference website) http://2016conference.ascilite.org/wp-content/uploads/ASCILITE-2016-full-proceedings-Updated-1512.pdf (Conference Proceedings) |
Conference
Conference | Annual Conference of the Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education 2016 |
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Abbreviated title | ASCILITE 2016 |
Country/Territory | Australia |
City | Adelaide |
Period | 27/11/16 → 30/11/16 |
Other | 33rd International Conference of Innovation, Practice and Research in the Use of Educational Technologies in Tertiary Education |
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Keywords
- Digital
- Higher education
- Identity
- Learning
- Policy
- Research
- Social media
- Teaching