TY - JOUR
T1 - Blogging as community of practice
T2 - lessons for academic development?
AU - Guerin, Cally
AU - Carter, Susan
AU - Aitchison, Claire
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 Taylor & Francis.
PY - 2015/7/3
Y1 - 2015/7/3
N2 - As practices and expectations around doctoral writing continue to change, so too do the demands on academic developers and learning advisors. Social media is increasingly playing a role in doctoral education, just as it is in higher education more generally. This paper explores a blog initiated in 2012 to inform and support doctoral writing; since its inception, it has grown to include diverse and overlapping communities of academic developers, language and literacy specialists, supervisors, and students with shared interests in doctoral writing. This case study reflects on our experiences of entering the online environment through the lens of connectivist learning, noting the practices and communities that have been established, and the blog’s positioning in relation to our formal roles within universities. We consider how blogging relates to our work as academic developers. Details of our experiences, with our analysis and reflection of them, can inform other academic developers seeking to engage in social media networks as part of their working lives.
AB - As practices and expectations around doctoral writing continue to change, so too do the demands on academic developers and learning advisors. Social media is increasingly playing a role in doctoral education, just as it is in higher education more generally. This paper explores a blog initiated in 2012 to inform and support doctoral writing; since its inception, it has grown to include diverse and overlapping communities of academic developers, language and literacy specialists, supervisors, and students with shared interests in doctoral writing. This case study reflects on our experiences of entering the online environment through the lens of connectivist learning, noting the practices and communities that have been established, and the blog’s positioning in relation to our formal roles within universities. We consider how blogging relates to our work as academic developers. Details of our experiences, with our analysis and reflection of them, can inform other academic developers seeking to engage in social media networks as part of their working lives.
KW - blogging
KW - community building
KW - connectivism
KW - doctoral writing
KW - social media in higher education
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84938420672&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/1360144X.2015.1042480
DO - 10.1080/1360144X.2015.1042480
M3 - Article
SN - 1360-144X
VL - 20
SP - 212
EP - 223
JO - International Journal for Academic Development
JF - International Journal for Academic Development
IS - 3
ER -