The Higher Education Academy Workshop and Seminar Series
This one day seminar will allow for academic staff from different higher education institutions across the UK to convene and to discuss the benefits and problems in collaborative learning, how social media " and other technologies and practices " can be used and to share good practice in facilitating collaborative teaching and learning in undergraduate media studies programmes.
The event will be a hosted by the School of Media and Film at the University of Winchester.
Collaborative learning is a key pedagogic activity in many undergraduate media studies programmes at universities and higher education establishments in the UK. Research indicates that when well executed, collaborative work enables students to learn much from each other (Gokhale, 1995; Johnson and Johnson 1999). Likewise, media educators arguing for a transition from Media Studies 1.0 to Media Studies 2.0 suggest that we must work with students to shift our educational practices to better suit the 'networked information environment' that characterises our time (Merrin 2009; Hong and Sullivan 2009; Jukes et. al. 2009; Christen 2009;). While such activity has raised concerns over increasing the risk of plagiarism and of students not contributing equally to a task, these issues these can be addressed through the design of the assessment process (Brooks & Ammons, 2003; Oakley et al. 2004).
Programme
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09:30
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Registration & Welcome
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10:00
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Welcome & Keynote: Professor David Gauntlett
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10:45
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Panel 1: Thinking Collaboratively
Dr Marcus Leaning (University of Winchester) Framing Collaboration in media education: History, Constructivism and Participatory Culture.
Dr Bex Lewis (University of Winchester) Programming Collaborative Learning
Melanie Gray (Bournemouth University) Reflection On Action within Collaborative Learning: a Case Study examination into the use of reflecting upon ones action as a core underpinning of collaborative learning as used within the Campaign Planning programme of the Advertising degree at Bournemouth University.
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12:15
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Lunch
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13:15
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Panel 2: Technologies and collaboration
Dr Dan Jackson and Dr Richard Berger (Bournemouth University) Empowering the learner, liberating the teacher? Collaborative lectures using old and new technologies
Dr Anna Feigenbaum (Richmond University, London) The Podcase Project: Reflections on integrating 'old' and 'new' media techniques in team-based collaborative learning
Dr Einar Thorsen (Bournemouth University) Student Wiki Pages: collaboration in a networked learning environment
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14:45
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Tea/Coffee
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15:00
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Panel 3 Collaboration in and out of the classroom
Dr. Lisa Stansbie (University of Huddersfield) Structures for Digital Collaboration and Interaction
Paul Bradshaw, Jonathan Hickman and Jennifer Jones (Birmingham City University and University of the West of Scotland) Stories and Streams
Jem Mackay (University College Falmouth) University of the Village
Justine Mortimer and Paul Carter (University of Winchester)Collective Creativity: Broadcast Radio as 'Messy' Pedagogic Practice
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16:45
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Close
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While a variety of methods may be used to foster collaboration one key way in which collaborative learning can be facilitated is through the use of social media and other web 2.0 technologies. Research on information skills education indicates that social media offer a useful means of building skills in students (Buzzetto-More, 2009; Sumar et. al. 2009; Burton Browning, 2010). Moreover, social media constitute a considerable element of the contemporary media environment and developing criticality in the use of them is now considered an important aspect of media education (Jenkins, 2009).
Contact email
Marcus.leaning@winchester.ac.uk
