CFP: HICSS Social Media & Learning Minitrack
Chairs: Maarten de Laat, Caroline Haythornthwaite & Dan Suthers
Track: Digital and Social Media
Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) 49,
January 5-8, 2016
http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/
FULL PAPERS DUE: June 15, 2015 via the HICSS conference system
http://www.hicss.org/#!calls/c1cd9
Social Media & Learning Minitrack
This minitrack calls for papers that address leading edge innovation, research methods and design to analyze and support learning through social media. Social media – such as social networking sites, blogging, microblogging, wikis, etc. – provide powerful tools for engaging in networks and communities and that stimulate social interaction for learning around topics of shared interest. Traditional boundaries (institutional, epistemological and spatial) are fading, creating open spaces that increase possibilities to connect and develop personal learning interests.
This minitrack invites papers that address the use of social media for learning, whether this is planned intentional learning or spontaneous during work or play. Research can be in formal learning settings or arrangements that are non-formal and informal. It can engage the learning of individuals, or learning that encompasses work groups, leisure groups, communities of interest and of practice.
We are interested in papers that examine theoretical issues; provide empirical data, innovative designs or new perspectives on learning; or that look into new forms of analytics to provide feedback about the learning that takes place in social media environments.
We invite empirical and theoretical papers that address current trends and developments in social media and learning, and address such questions as:
Chairs: Maarten de Laat, Caroline Haythornthwaite & Dan Suthers
Track: Digital and Social Media
Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) 49,
January 5-8, 2016
http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/
FULL PAPERS DUE: June 15, 2015 via the HICSS conference system
http://www.hicss.org/#!calls/c1cd9
Social Media & Learning Minitrack
This minitrack calls for papers that address leading edge innovation, research methods and design to analyze and support learning through social media. Social media – such as social networking sites, blogging, microblogging, wikis, etc. – provide powerful tools for engaging in networks and communities and that stimulate social interaction for learning around topics of shared interest. Traditional boundaries (institutional, epistemological and spatial) are fading, creating open spaces that increase possibilities to connect and develop personal learning interests.
This minitrack invites papers that address the use of social media for learning, whether this is planned intentional learning or spontaneous during work or play. Research can be in formal learning settings or arrangements that are non-formal and informal. It can engage the learning of individuals, or learning that encompasses work groups, leisure groups, communities of interest and of practice.
We are interested in papers that examine theoretical issues; provide empirical data, innovative designs or new perspectives on learning; or that look into new forms of analytics to provide feedback about the learning that takes place in social media environments.
We invite empirical and theoretical papers that address current trends and developments in social media and learning, and address such questions as:
- How are we learning in the social media age?
- What measures, techniques, or analyses provide insight into learning on and through social media?
- How do social media support, extend, or supplant other forms of learning?
- What kinds of social media use support individual, group, or community learning?
- How are social media transforming the learning landscape?
- What theories of learning work for social media?
Topics include but are not limited to …
Theories, perspectives and paradigms
- Learning on and through the web, for formal, informal and non-formal learning
- Social learning in networks, communities, crowds
- Individual, group, community, or organizational learning through social media
- Contributory behavior in social media supported learning communities
- Professional learning, lifelong learning, and/or workplace learning and social media
- Open access, social media and learning
- Learning across multiple media, and the role of social media in learning
- Self-directed learning, social learning, adult learning
Design
- Design and use of social media (MOOCs, Twitter, Wikis, Blogs) for learning
- Design and/or analysis of multi-media learning ecologies
- Integration of social media across multiple media (Open platforms, Business Social Media) and existing practices
Analytics
- Methods for analyzing social media and learning
- Tools for automated data capture and analytics on social media and learning
- Awareness and visualization of learning via social media
ORGANIZERS
Maarten de Laat, Open University of the Netherlands
maarten.delaat@ou.nl<mailto:maarten.delaat@ou.nl>
Caroline Haythornthwaite, University of British Columbia
c.haythorn@ubc.ca<mailto:c.haythorn@ubc.ca>
Dan Suthers, University of Hawaii
suthers@hawaii.edu<mailto:suthers@hawaii.edu>
