Posts Tagged ‘Learning’

Social Ways of Working in Higher Education

January 24th, 2012

Currently I sit on a task and finish group discussing the use and future of social technologies in my university. As a result I’ve been reflecting on how we think about the emerging developments in social technologies and their impact on the ways we work in academia. Like many organisations, social technologies are greatly influencing the ways we work in higher education. They are influencing not just our communication activities, but also the activities we do for education and learning, research and administration. In this, all that we do as educators, researchers, students and administrators within the higher education sector is organisational communications or more formally termed: engagement. For example: » Read more: Social Ways of Working in Higher Education

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Tanya Saracho – Collaboration Shapes Us!

December 15th, 2011

Who we are is because of who and what we interact with, the experiences we have and the experiences of others close to us. These experiences are both mediated by digital social technologies and are unmediated or face-to-face. In essence, life and living is a series of interactions. It is an ongoing dynamic process of collaboration, social and situational interactions that over time shape who we are, what we do, and how we see the world. Beyond school and for many beyond university, much of who we become is shaped be our world of work and the communication and interactions within that world. Today while reading about the Arts Alliance Illinois, a state initiative to raise the profile of the Arts and Arts Education throughout the state of Illinois, I stumbled upon a video of a talk delivered about the work life story of  - Tanya Saracho. A talk in which Tanya explains how collaboration in her workplace shaped her, her voice, the voices of those around her and their creative process which grew into a theatre company. » Read more: Tanya Saracho – Collaboration Shapes Us!

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Podcast Series: Introduction to Marketing

March 29th, 2011

With the 2nd edition of our Marketing Book on the shelves since December 2010, I’m happy to announce that our author podcast summaries for each Chapter in the book are now freely available on iTunes.

My favourite of course is the podcast for Chapter 17, the Digital Marketing chapter.

If you are a student taking Marketing for the first time, or just interested in reviewing your knowledge, these podcast summaries will provide a useful review to aid you in your revision of the material covered in each chapter of our book. If interested in learning more about some of the specific areas of Marketing such as Digital, Services, International or Retailing, download just the specific chapters and have a listen.

These podcast are freely available on iTunes for all who are learning about, interested in or students of marketing.

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Kelly

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A Wiki Way of Learning

February 15th, 2011

A Wiki Way of Learning is the title of a study I’ve been working on over the past two years in collaboration with Professor Martin Weller (Open University). The study explores the design, use and effect of Wiki technology for collaborative learning in postgraduate management education.

Collaborative learning has a diverse meaning, from group or team-based working, to peer-to-peer interaction on shared tasks. With the rise in dynamic ubiquitous digital technologies has provided another rich layer to collaborative learning as the need to learn how to collaborate now coexists with the need to learn how to use digital technologies. » Read more: A Wiki Way of Learning

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The Professional Socialisation of Digital Knowledge & Learning

November 5th, 2010

This week I gave a talk at Northwestern in the School of Communication. Part of my talk was inspired by some of my past work and my evolution in how I consider and see Digital Knowledge and Learning. In this blog post I touch on an element of this story, the professional socialisation of digital knowledge and learning and why ‘social context’ of ‘learning about’ and ‘using’ digital technology, is important in life and therefore in technology research. » Read more: The Professional Socialisation of Digital Knowledge & Learning

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Building Social Brands Online

October 31st, 2010

How does an organisation, a person, a brand build social capital online?  Through change! How does it engage in social web platforms such as Facebook, Youtube, Flickr and Twitter? It takes time, unlearning old practice, skills and knowledge and learning new practice through listening, dialogue and experimentation. » Read more: Building Social Brands Online

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Digital Media Literacy in Business, Media Management & Marketing

June 23rd, 2010

1CEMFHLast week I had the pleasure of spending an afternoon with DK, Mark and Karl from Mediasnackers, facilitating a Business Development workshop for them. At this workshop we discussed the What, How and Why Mediasnackers do what they do. It was a great afternoon, but not only did Mediasnackers walk away with some insights into their evolution, so did I!

The afternoon inspired me to reflect on the very same questions for what I do, the reason I started CASE Insights and found myself leaving the commercial marketing research sector for academic research and teaching. Reflection I haven’t done for a couple of years and given how difficult it can be juggling teaching, research, administration, marking, supervision and life … I thought it was increasingly important to revisit these questions! » Read more: Digital Media Literacy in Business, Media Management & Marketing

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DML2010: In reflection!

March 1st, 2010

question-markIn an earlier post at the beginning of DML2010, I recalled a number of questions raised for reflection throughout the conference and from this I added a fourth. However I heed the onus from Sonia Livingstone that perhaps we are asking the wrong questions and from her talk, a number of the questions/statements she raised [that I tweeted] I include here – as reflections from my DML 2010 experience (and no doubt clouded by my own societal and institutional influences). » Read more: DML2010: In reflection!

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DML2010: Sonia Livingstone on Youthful Participation in Digital Media

March 1st, 2010

84782290A few weeks ago while on a visit to the US, I attended the ‘Digital Media Learning‘ conference in San Diego. The closing key note was given by Prof. Sonia Livingstone from London School of Economics (LSE).

The conference itself opened my eyes to a number of things, one important thing is that we need to always remember the interdisciplinary nature of this field. Without an open mind and participation in conversation and sharing, often the perspective from which we approach digital media learning can cloud and sometimes blind us from anothers view of this space. As adults researching this space, our view of the world is very different from those we research and observe – be it child, young adult in HE or those engaged in lifelong learning. But from each other we can certainly share and learn.

Prof. Sonia Livingstone provided one of the best talks I’ve been fortunate to listen to in this space, and like Henry Jenkins and S.Craig Watkins, made me think. From her talk, » Read more: DML2010: Sonia Livingstone on Youthful Participation in Digital Media

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DML 2010: Henry Jenkins on Diversifying Participation!

February 19th, 2010

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Tonight in the Chair’s introduction to the DML 2010 conference, Dr. Henry Jenkins posed some interesting insights into what is emerging and what we are facing when it comes to Digital Media Learning …asking the delegates to consider more widely diversifying participation in learning communities …

From this introduction I tried to capture a number of key insights … a colleague and friend of mine, DK from MediaSnackers, a social media organisation specialising in engaging youth-based organisations, once spoke that he endeavours to make people either ‘think’ or ‘smile’ from his talks, meetings or conversations. Well tonight Henry Jenkins … most certainly made me think …

Below are a number of the key insights I took out of Henry Jenkins talk … » Read more: DML 2010: Henry Jenkins on Diversifying Participation!

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