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AI in education: conversation online and the impact agenda

Target audience

Audience: PG research

Course pre-work

Please read this ahead of the workshop on how the impact agenda has led to social media being used in a role it may not be equipped to perform | Impact of Social Sciences (lse.ac.uk) https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2018/05/31/the-impact-agenda-has-led-to-social-media-being-used-in-a-role-it-may-not-be-equipped-to-perform/

Course mapped to

Vitae's Researcher Development Framework domains: B3 (Professional and career development), D3 (Engagement and impact)

Course information

PLEASE NOTE: This workshop will run online.聽 If you are no longer able to attend, please cancel your place at least two working days before so that we can allow others onto the course.

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In this workshop, we will consider how the impact agenda has accelerated the use of social media by academics and explore whether this agenda might incentive certain kinds of behaviour online. We look at how social media algorithms influence how well or badly conversation, and communication more generally, goes in online environments, and consider whether, and to what extent, social media actually fosters public understanding of research. We also consider ethical issues at stake when communicating research online and what it might be to converse responsibly online.

Increasingly, academics use social media to disseminate their research. This uptake in social media usage is partly driven by the prominence of the impact agenda in higher education. But while communication and conversation online sometimes goes well, it also can go badly, and it is not obvious that disseminating one鈥檚 research online does (or even can) foster public understanding of it. Future teachers and lecturers will find it useful to have the opportunity to think about and discuss how social media algorithms incentivise and drive conversation online, especially in the context of the impact agenda, and they need to think about the ways in which this can go both and badly. They will also need to understand the advantages, disadvantages, risks, and ethical issues surrounding the dissemination of research on social media. This workshop is designed specifically for postgraduates who are interested in further developing their skillset in order to enhance their employment prospects in the context of teaching, especially in the context of higher education. In advance of the workshop, participants will be asked to read an academic paper and a blog post that will be discussed in class. This will help students to recognise and relate to specific algorithmic practices in the context of education and will enable them to then use the knowledge and understanding they gain in the context of their own work.

Aims and objectives

By the end of this workshop you should be able to:

• Understand in more detail how the impact agenda has accelerated the use of social media by academics.
• Recognise and relate to specific uses of social media in the context of education and then be able to consider these in your own work after reading the academic paper and blog post.
• Think critically about the ways in which communication, and especially communication of research online, can go well and badly and how social media algorithms themselves partly influence how well or badly these communications go.
• Articulate precise ethical issues at stake when communicating research online.
• Apply the knowledge from the workshop to the development of your own research and teaching.
• Draw on the knowledge and experience you gain at the workshop and apply these to real world environments.

Tutors

Mr Andrew Eccles

Course provider

IELLI
Email: ielli@st-andrews.ac.uk