Comments on: Social Media and Academia http://blogs.cetis.org.uk/sheilamacneill/2011/09/23/social-media-and-academia/ Cetis blog Mon, 07 Oct 2013 10:54:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.22 By: Jen Ross http://blogs.cetis.org.uk/sheilamacneill/2011/09/23/social-media-and-academia/#comment-2615 Fri, 30 Sep 2011 11:00:11 +0000 http://blogs.cetis.org.uk/sheilamacneill/?p=1070#comment-2615 Apply! Apply! :-)

]]> By: Sheilamacneill http://blogs.cetis.org.uk/sheilamacneill/2011/09/23/social-media-and-academia/#comment-2614 Mon, 26 Sep 2011 16:46:15 +0000 http://blogs.cetis.org.uk/sheilamacneill/?p=1070#comment-2614 Hi Jen

Oh yes, I think there is a whole new twist on transactional distance through the use of social networks. I *must* register for your course! would be great to keep talking about this.

]]> By: Jen Ross http://blogs.cetis.org.uk/sheilamacneill/2011/09/23/social-media-and-academia/#comment-2613 Mon, 26 Sep 2011 15:23:02 +0000 http://blogs.cetis.org.uk/sheilamacneill/?p=1070#comment-2613 Great post, Sheila – and great to meet you at the #socac event. The question of place and space and distance is one that we’ve been quite interested in on the MSc in E-learning (and our related research grouping) over the past few years, and we’ve just started a new project that explores what it means to distance learners to be “at” Edinburgh. Asking students about this seems to open up a whole rich seam about institutional identity and different ways of constructing and thinking about presence.

]]> By: blogotron.co.uk http://blogs.cetis.org.uk/sheilamacneill/2011/09/23/social-media-and-academia/#comment-2612 Fri, 23 Sep 2011 12:05:52 +0000 http://blogs.cetis.org.uk/sheilamacneill/?p=1070#comment-2612 […] Sheila from CETIS recently blogged about a social media event and I feel some of the themes in her post are closely related to some experiences I have had this […]

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