Title
From tweeting to meeting: Expansive professional learning and the academic conference backchannel
Abstract
As new technologies shape and are shaped by human practices, educators and researchers must consider the impact that participating in social media-to access, reflect upon, question, evaluate and disseminate scholarship-is having on their professional development and practices. This paper investigates how members of the educational research community use social media to advance professional learning and scholarship dissemination in online-offline networks. Specifically, we examine whether and how participating in the microblogging service, Twitter, as a conference backchannel, facilitated professional learning and participation in the annual meetings of American educational researchers in 2012 and 2016, respectively, and the nature of that participation. Insights from this paper will benefit educators of varying disciplines and experience levels interested in the changing nature of social media in education, scholarship, and professional learning ecologies.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1111/bjet.12817
BRITISH JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY
Field
DocType
Volume
Faculty development,Social media,Scholarship,Computer science,Microblogging,Professional development,Pedagogy,Professional learning community,Educational research,Backchannel
Journal
50.0
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
SP4.0
0007-1013
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Christine Greenhow11179.69
Jiahang Li200.34
Minhtuyen Mai300.34