Opening talk for a workshop on moving higher education online. Topic: Potential, Tensions, and Provocations of using Online Tools for Academic Practice

1. Networked Scholarship: The
Poten6al and Tensions of using
Online Tools for Academic
Prac6ce
George Veletsianos, PhD
Canada Research Chair in Innova6ve Learning & Technology
Associate Professor
Royal Roads University
Victoria, BC
Shaking the Brick and Mortar: Moving Higher Education Online Workshop
European University Institute– Florence, Italy

3. “scholars’ use of par6cipatory
technologies and online social
networks to share, reflect upon,
cri6que, improve, validate, and
further their scholarship”
(Veletsianos & Kimmons, 2012; Veletsianos, 2016)

4. Poten6al

5. “enhance the impact and reach of scholarship”

6. “foster the development of more equitable,
effec6ve, efficient, and transparent scholarly and
educa6onal processes”

7. Tensions &
Conundrums

8. Naviga6ng personal-professional boundaries online

9. Systemic Issues, such as:
1. Working in an environment that lacks
frameworks to judge the legi6macy and quality of
their digital undertakings
2. What do our ins6tu6ons consider appropriate
prac6ce?

10. 2 Provoca6ons

11. Follower Counts…
I don’t think it means what you think it means

12. R2 = .83, F[4,459] = 571.42, p < .001
following (B = .58, p < .001), tweets (B = .32, p < .001), role (B = .16, p < .01), and lifespan (B = .12, p < .01)
significantly predict followers
B Std. Error t
(Constant) -.27 .07 -4.2 ***
lg(following) .58 .03 17.2 ***
lg(tweets) .32 .02 15.4 ***
role .16 .02 7.7 ***
lg(lifespan) .12 .05 2.6 **

13. The audiences scholars imagine
The audiences their ins6tu6ons
imagine

14. Veletsianos, G. (2016 ). Networked Scholars: Social Media in Academia. New York,
NY: Routledge.
Veletsianos, G., & Kimmons, R. (2016) . Scholars in an Increasingly Digital and
Open World: How do Educa6on Professors and Students use Twioer? The Internet
and Higher Educa<on, 30, 1-10.
Veletsianos, G. & Kimmons, R. (2013). Scholars and Faculty Members Lived Experiences in Online
Social Networks. The Internet and Higher Educa<on,16(1), 43-50 .
Veletsianos, G. & Kimmons, R. (2012). Assump6ons and Challenges of Open Scholarship. The
Interna<onal Review Of Research In Open And Distance Learning,13(4), 166-189.
Veletsianos, G. & Kimmons, R. (2012). Networked Par6cipatory Scholarship: Emergent Techno-
Cultural Pressures Toward Open and Digital Scholarship in Online Networks. Computers &
Educa<on, 58(2), 766-774 .
Veletsianos, G., & Shaw, A. (under review) . Scholars in an Increasingly Open and Digital World:
Imagined Audiences and their Impact on Scholars’ Online Par6cipa6on.

15. This presenta6on: www.slideshare.com/veletsianos
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Gmail | Twioer | Skype | Academia.edu | Etc