1. Working in an open fashion Gráinne Conole, Publication strategy event 2nd February 2011

2. New media Key characteristics Peer critiquing Aggregation of resources Collaboration Personalisation Networking Open practices Web 2.0 - the machine is Us/ing Us

4. A typology of new technologies (Conole and Alevizou, 2010), Review of Web 2.0 tools in Higher Education http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/assets/EvidenceNet/Conole_Alevizou_2010.pdf

5. Communication Redefining ICT… Audio & video conferencing Media sharing Forums Google wave Instant messaging Wikis Blogs Email Twitter Interactivity Virtual worlds, online games & immersive environments Web pages Social networking Mash ups

6. Digital identity Finding your digital voice Working across tools Degree of openness Personal/professional

7. New digital literacies Play Collective intelligence Participatory culture shifts the focus of literacy from one of individual expression to community involvement. The new literacies almost all involve social skills developed through collaboration and networking. Judgement Performance Transmedia navigation Simulation Networking Appropriation Multitasking Negotiation Distributed cognition Jenkins et al., 2006

8. The rise of the blogosphere Of the moment reflections Digital archive The power of peer review Record of events and reviews Wider audience reach and hence profile Link into fb and Twitter

9. Prominent bloggers

10. Online course: CCK10 and discourse ltc.umanitoba.ca/blogs/futurecourse/

12. 1027 views

13. summaries & additional content

14. 19 links

16. My Personal Digital Learning Environment Information Word/Googledocs(writing) Google (searching) Wordpress (blogging) Powerpoint/Slideshare(presentation) Audacity (recording) Communication Email Mobile & skype Twitter facebook Cloudworks Eluminate(video conferencing) Laptop, iphone, ipod, portable hard disk, camera, flip video camera

17. Practicing what we preach Active blog posting Use of Twitter Participation in online conferences Webinars Podcasts Use of Cloudworks Publishing online of draft publications The role of ORO

18. OU L&T conference Went virtual in 2010 Use of Elluminate and Cloudworks Ca. 3500 unique views Significant discussions and resource aggregation International participation

20. Ideas for harnessing Web 2.0?

22. Openness and open practices

23. Conference: tips and hints Purpose: presentation and feedback Work the hashtag Collaborative working and network for students Network, network, network! Potential collaborators & bid partners Put in symposium of experts or symposium with researchers Expert validation workshops Put up paper & presentation Follow up links afterwards Work up into a research paper

24. Networking Built link with international colleagues Get on national level committees JISC expert gp, ALT, ESRC, JLT Invite key researchers in your field to be involved in a joint research activity Invite people to give seminars at OU Build links online via Twitter, facebook, etc. Participate in online events Leave comments on blogs

25. Principles and application Research Open Evolving Impact Teaching

26. Policy Research & development Academic perspective Learner experience Impact: Intervention framework

27. Learning in an Open World Design Courses design & shared openly Delivery Use of free tools & resources Open Evaluation Critical reflection Research Sharing of research data

28. Open Design Open Delivery Open Research X-Delia Open Evaluation

29. Reflections Open, participatory and social media enable new forms of communication and collaboration Communities in these spaces are complex and distributed We as researcher need to develop new digital literacy skills to harness their potential We need to rethinkhow we carry out and disseminate research Open, participatory and social media can provide mechanisms for us to share and discuss research ideas We are seeing a blurring of boundaries: teachers/research, teaching/research, real/virtual spaces, formal/informal modes of communication and publication

30. Key questions How are new open, social and participatory media changing educational practice? What are the implications for research? How are researcher roles changing? What new digital literacies are needed? How can we effectively harness the power of these new media?

31. Publishing Post up drafts for comment Become a editor for a special issue of a journal Write a book! Edited or single author Target high impact journals Keep publication list up to date in ORO Set up a writing group or workshop Co-write with lots of different people Tweet, fbetc when publications come out

32. Publications: tips and hints Be provocative – sometimes Try to have a catchy title Make a mark, be influential Based on solid empirical evidence Something to generate discussions Reviews of the field and summaries of the state of the art Draw on a number of theoretical frameworks across disciplines A new set of ideas, changing the direction of the field

33. How has your use of technology for research purposes changed in the last five years? What are the pros and cons of these changes Can you think of some good examples of effective use of technologies? Map out your digital environment How might you use technologies more effectively in carrying out your research, communicating with other researchers and disseminating results? How effective is your networking? How have you used technologies to network in recent years? What are your strategies for publishing? How are you using technologies to publish?

34. Discussion and activities

35. A focus on community New open, social and participatory media enable new means of communication, collaboration, sharing and co-construction of knowledge Want to focus on the nature of community in these new online spaces What is it and how can it be fostered, supported?

36. The nature of community Complex, distributed, loose communities are emerging Facilitated through different but connected social networking tools such asblogs, facebook and Twitter Users create their own Personal Digital Environment Mix of synchronous and asynchronous tools Boundary crossing via the power of retweeting Links between interests, rather than places

37. So what is a community? [Community does not] imply necessarily co-presence, a well-defined identifiable group, or socially visible boundaries. It does imply participation in an activity system about which participants share understandings concerning what they are doing and what that means in their lives and for their communities Lave and Wenger, 1991 Virtual communities are social aggregations that emerge from the Net when enough people carry on those public discussions long enough, with sufficient human feeling, to form webs of personal relationships in cyberspace. Rheingold, 1993

38. Community as a process Constantly evolving and changing Shifting groups and depths of relationships Dynamic, evolving and potentially transformative Both directed and serendipitous interactions

39. Participation Sustained over time Commitment from core group Emerging roles & hierarchy Cohesion Support & tolerance Turn taking & response Humour and playfulness Identity Group self-awareness Shared language & vocab Sense of community Creative capability Igniting sense of purpose Multiple points of view expressed, contradicted or challenged Creation of knowledge links & patterns Community indicators Galley et al., 2010