Lisa Harris Marketing

At Southampton a small group of us meet up once a month and take it in turns to present on something new and creative that we have been involved in. My turn this week, reporting on my recent experiences with the University of Liverpool Online MBA and the Open Online Course Social Media and Education:

Starting on Thursday, I’m running this unit for Southampton MSc students for the first time, together with Alan Rae. The slides for the first week are here:

There is also a Ning community where student groupwork and tutor feedback will be posted. This unit currently forms part of the MSc in Marketing Management and (from next year) the new MSc in Digital Marketing.

I haven’t updated on Social Media and Open Education (ECI831) for a while but I’ve been keeping an eye on things, including the for-credit student blogs which are great and provide a wide range of perspectives. I particularly loved the networked student video which neatly summarises learning styles for the 21^st century.

Sue Waters did an excellent session in Elluminate last week. My key take away from the session was her reminder of the importance of getting student buy-in to blogging. Although the benefits of blogging may seem obvious to the ‘converted’, that is not necessarily so to newcomers. Sue showed some specific examples of her students’ blogs which clearly demonstrated how the writers had grown in confidence with their posts over time.

And another cool feature of Elluminate caught my eye during this session:

It allows participants in the real-time session to write their ideas on the whiteboard summarising their thoughts on their key learning points, as per the screenshot above.

The next session featured Alan Levine, who did a great presentation at the Open Education Conference in Vancouver this summer. However, Alan got stuck at the airport and so he was only there in spirit – but he has left a massive collection of fantastic stories and ‘stories about stories’ on the course wiki page that I am working my way through…

Lorraine Warren and I are running a Careers session for Southampton Students on Thursday – the slides are here:

We also hope to have some virtual guests in the form of representatives of last year’s graduates and maybe also some Twitter followers…I will update this post with feedback after the event.

Recently my colleague Christophe Mues asked me to talk to his new Information Systems MSc students about my research interests. Little did I know when I agreed to this, that pulling a number of semi-connected threads together of my work over the past 3 years would take up much of this lovely sunny day…and evening…

I thought the above video would help to set the scene, before I launched into this set of slides (sorry, I know it is boring old powerpoint, but now I’ve got the content organised I will work on a prezi version…and also maybe a mindmap)  It was actually a very useful exercise to pull this material together, even if it did make my brain ache.

I’d be delighted to get some feedback from the group in the form of comments on this post, or as tweets during the session on Wednesday(using #researchbylisa), and I will update the post with my reflections afterwards. Let me know if any aspects are of particular interest, (or not) and I will be sure to include them (or not) in the IS strategy module I’ll be running in February

PS – here is another relevant video from Social Media and Open Education that I’d like to show and discuss in the session, if time permits: