Presentation at 3rd Enhancing Student Learning Through Innovative Scholarship.

1. Celebrating innovative
scholarship through social media
Sue Beckingham SFHEA FSEDA CMALT | @suebecks | Sheffield Hallam University
#ESLTIS17 Enhancing Student Learning Through Innovative Scholarship Conference

2. 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.

3. 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

4. "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)

5. 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

6. "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

7. 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 in
peer- 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
Discovery Integration Application Teaching
Open
ScholarshipType of
Scholarship
Purpose
Measuresofperformance
The future is digital the future is networked
@FredGarnett and @nigele1 #ALTC2011
Visual adapted by @suebecks from:
http://www.slideshare.net/fredgarnett/a-framework-
for-cocreating-open-scholarship

8. 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

9. 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

10. discussioncritical
evaluation
collaborative
investigation
asking
questions
open
inquiry
Social scholarship
through digital
engagement

11. 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.
Adapted from Greenhow and Gleeson 2014
basicresearch
interdisciplinarywork
informedandstudied
teachingpractices
appliedresearch
Social Scholarship: social media affordances

12. Extending the reach of scholarly
outputs using social media

13. views
likes comments
downloads
Consider giving your work a
Creative Commons licence so
it can be re-used
Analytics

14. Catherine Cronin @catherinecronin
http://catherinecronin.net/blog/
Academic reflective blogging

15. Dr Laura Pasquini @laurapasquini
https://techknowtools.wordpress.com
Reflective
blogging
Twitter feed
sharing others
work
Professional
online
identities

16. Students as researchers blogging

17. @LTHEchat #LTHEchat
Interactive discussions
about scholarship
https://lthechat.com/

18. 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

19. cooperation
inspiration
creativity
transparencyvision
connectedness
Digital Scholarship - potential outcomes

20. 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.

21. 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

22. 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

23. Consider how you can work
out loud and share your
learning journey with others

24. Any questions

25. 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

26. 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