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The good, the bad and the ugly : Facebook and higher education

Bateman, Debra 2010, The good, the bad and the ugly : Facebook and higher education, in HERDSA 2010 : Refereed papers from the 33rd HERDSA Annual International Conference, HERDSA, Milperra, N.S.W..


Title The good, the bad and the ugly : Facebook and higher education
Author(s) Bateman, Debra
Conference name Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia. Conference (33rd : 2010 : Melbourne, Vic.)
Conference location Melbourne, Vic.
Conference dates 6 - 9 July, 2010
Title of proceedings HERDSA 2010 : Refereed papers from the 33rd HERDSA Annual International Conference
Publication date 2010
Publisher HERDSA
Place of publication Milperra, N.S.W.
Summary The use of Social Networking and Web 2.0 are clearly reshaping the ways in which Higher Education is facilitated and experienced by students. Increasingly, there is a social and cultural expectation that Information Communication Technologies (ICT) should be ubiquitous within peoples’ daily lives. Specifically, through auto-ethnographic methodology, this presentation will showcase the use of Facebook across several units of study. Within these auto-ethnographies are exemplars of collaboration between students, and between students and lecturers. There are also examples which highlight the ways in which the lecturer uses Facebook to inform teaching, and monitor student engagement with ‘real time’ student feedback. Other examples demonstrate the ways in which Facebook is utilised as a mode of representation for student assessment, knowledge production and dissemination. Two examples specifically focus on lecturer responses to student use of Facebook which resulted in infringement of academic conduct. The presenter will draw upon this series of auto-ethnographies to highlight multiple considerations for academia, the institutions in which they work and the development of policy more broadly across Higher Education. This presentation explores the potential capacities, strengths and pitfalls in adopting social technologies. It further highlights the vigilance with which these spaces must be ‘monitored’ in protecting intellectual property, academic integrity and in demonstrating a duty of care for those with whom we interact.
ISBN 0908557809
ISSN 0155-6223
Language eng
Field of Research 130103 Higher Education
Socio Economic Objective 930203 Teaching and Instruction Technologies
HERDC Research category E2 Full written paper - non-refereed / Abstract reviewed
Copyright notice ©2010, HERDSA
Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30030984

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