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Dr. George VeletsianosAssistant Professor of LearningTechnologiesUniversity of Texas at Austin6Keynote at the 2013 Teaching &Learning to the Power of Technology ConferenceSocial Media in Learning,Teaching, and ScholarshipTales of Practice

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# t l t 1 3

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Tale #0: About me

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Technology in our family

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Social Media use in education(a) social media use guided bytechno-enthusiasm and techno-determinism,(b) social media as tools to questionand circumvent traditional elements ofscholarly practice, and(c) social media as transformativetechnology.

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Social Media use in education(a) social media use guided bytechno-enthusiasm and techno-determinism,(b) social media as tools to questionand circumvent traditional elements ofscholarly practice, and(c) social media as transformativetechnology.Networked Participatory ScholarshipThe emergent practice of scholars’ use of participatorytechnologies and online social networks to share,reflect upon, critique, improve, validate, and furthertheir scholarship (Veletsianos & Kimmons, 2012)

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Tale #1: My physician & I

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Claims“participatory internet technologies… have thepotential to change the way academics engage inscholarship”“technological changes are going to flood how wecurrently think about, do, and represent research.”

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Claims“participatory internet technologies… have thepotential to change the way academics engage inscholarship”“technological changes are going to flood how wecurrently think about, do, and represent research.”

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“Motion picture is destined to revolutionize our educationsystem …in a few years it will supplant largely, if not entirely,the use of textbooks”“Education over the Internet is going to be so big it is goingto make e-mail usage look like a rounding error”

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“The current understanding of schools inthe digital age [is] hampered by acurious amnesia, forgetfulness oreven willful ignorance of past phasesof technology development andimplementation…”Selwyn, 2011, pp. 39

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Why is this important?

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At a panel at SXSWeduDo “we” care about learning outcomes?

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At a panel at SXSWeduDo “we” care about learning outcomes?Of course we do.

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At a panel at SXSWeduDo “we” care about learning outcomes?Of course we do.Once we make profits for our investors. That is our mandate.

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Tale #2: What scholarly activities doindividuals enact on social media?Veletsianos (in press); Veletsianos & Kimmons 2012, 2013

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Tale #2: What scholarly activities doindividuals enact on social media?Veletsianos (in press); Veletsianos & Kimmons 2012, 2013AnnouncementsDraft papersOpen textbooksSyllabi + ActivitiesLive streamingLive-BloggingCollaborative authoringDebates + commentaryOpen teachingPublic P&T materialsThe doctoral journey (e.g.,#PhDChat)Crowdsourcing

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Tale #2: What scholarly activities doindividuals enact on social media?Veletsianos (in press); Veletsianos & Kimmons 2012, 2013AnnouncementsDraft papersOpen textbooksSyllabi + ActivitiesLive streamingLive-BloggingCollaborative authoringDebates + commentaryOpen teachingPublic P&T materialsThe doctoral journey (e.g.,#PhDChat)CrowdsourcingKasey Ford

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Tale #2: What scholarly activities doindividuals enact on social media?PirateUniversity.orgThePaperBay.comReddit.com/r/Scholar#ICanHazPdf

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Tale #3: “They are not my friends”Veletsianos, Kimmons, & French, (2013)

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Scholarly identity• Do we create it?• Is it created and/or structured for us?

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RepurposingVeletsianos (2012)

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Tale #4: Spaces of gatheringVeletsianos (in press)

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Tale #5: The Past Shaping the PresentVeletsianos, Kimmons, & French, (2013)

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Tale #6: What is “our” mandate aseducators/designers/researchers?• To be involved in the design of futureeducational systems.How?– Advocacy (what are our values?)– Design & Development– Research– Input– Partnerships

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What am I doing about this?

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What am I doing about this?http://tinyurl.com/moocvote

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Let’s return to this…(a) social media use guided bytechno-enthusiasm and techno-determinism,(b) social media as tools to questionand circumvent traditional elements ofscholarly practice, and(c) social media as transformativetechnology.

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Thank you!www.veletsianos.com@veletsianos on Twitterveletsianos@gmail.comThis presentation:www.slideshare.com/veletsianos

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ReferencesAvailable at http://www.veletsianos/publicationsVeletsianos, G. (2010). Emerging Technologies in Distance Education. Edmonton, AB: AthabascaUniversity Press.Veletsianos, G. (2010). A Definition of Emerging Technologies for Education. In G. Veletsianos (Ed.),Emerging Technologies in Distance Education (pp. 3-22). Edmonton, AB: Athabasca University Press.Veletsianos, G., Kimmons, R., & French, K. (2013). Instructor experiences with a social networking site in ahigher education setting: Expectations, Frustrations, Appropriation, and Compartmentalization.Educational Technology, Research, and Development, 61(2)M 255-278.Veletsianos, G. & Kimmons, R. (2013). Scholars and Faculty Members Lived Experiences in Online SocialNetworks. The Internet and Higher Education,16(1), 43-50.Veletsianos, G. & Kimmons, R. (2012). Assumptions and Challenges of Open Scholarship. TheInternational Review Of Research In Open And Distance Learning,13(4), 166-189Veletsianos, G. (2012). Higher Education Scholars’ Participation and Practices on Twitter. Journal ofComputer Assisted Learning, 28(4), 336-349.Veletsianos, G. & Kimmons, R. (2012). Networked Participatory Scholarship: Emergent Techno-CulturalPressures Toward Open and Digital Scholarship in Online Networks. Computers & Education, 58(2),766-774.Veletsianos, G. (2011). Designing Opportunities for Transformation with Emerging Technologies.Educational Technology, 51(2), 41-46.

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