Social Scholars: Re-envisioning Graduate Education in the Age of Social Media

Christine Greenhow; Holly Marich; K. Bret Staudt Willet

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2017 (Mar 05, 2017) pp. 856–861

This paper reports findings from a mixed methods study of whether and how doctoral students understand and practice social scholarship within the context of a required graduate course. Our conceptualization of social scholarship re-envisions Boyer?s ...

Topics: New Possibilities with Information Technologies, Graduate Education & Faculty Development, Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies

Tweeting Across the Pond: COVID-19 Emergency Learning Networks in the United Kingdom and the United States through Twitter #Edchat

K. Bret Staudt Willet; Christine Greenhow; Cathy Lewin

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2021 (Mar 29, 2021) pp. 1769–1778

The global COVID-19 pandemic produced economic and social disruptions of unprecedented scale. In Spring 2020, schooling at all levels was halted or forced to switch to emergency remote teaching. Social media platforms, including Twitter, have been...

Topics: Social Media

Social scholarship revisited: Changing scholarly practices in the age of social media

Christine Greenhow; Benjamin Gleason; K. Bret Staudt Willet

British Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 50, No. 3 (May 2019) pp. 987–1004

This conceptual exploration revisits a key question from earlier work (Greenhow & Gleason, 2014): What is scholarship reconsidered in the age of social media? Social scholarship is a framework that expanded Boyers’ (1990) conceptualization of...