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Workshop participants came up with the following list of proposed projects to carry out in the context of their home institutions / workplaces.
Proposed projects were drawn from the fields of health and social care,higher education, and further education. Research themes and questions focused on the support needs of students and staff, exploring (and exploding!) myths about student's "digital lives", and exploring cross-cultural contexts for ICT use.
** Contacts and Attribution: If you participated in the workshop, and if you would like readers of this wiki to contact you, please add your name and contact details to your project listing below. Please note, only registered users of Wetpaint can edit this wiki.
Context: HE environment, where there is a low staff awareness / use of technology
Context: Health and Social Care
Patient Journey Wiki: http://patientjourneys.wetpaint.com/ - a place to document existing patient journeys already existing on the web
PEXH Wiki: http://pexh.wikispaces.com/ - a place for people to document their patient journey
Contact: Andy Pulman
Context: HEI with an emphasis on teaching
Context: UK research university in the Midlands
ICTs. The project will address questions of individual motivation, and will investigate the social construction of conceptions such as “natural”/”artificial”
Context: HEI where online and blended approaches are an integral part of pedagogy
Context: Cross-cultural studies of technology, communication, and identity
Context: New entrants to HE in the Netherlands
Proposed projects were drawn from the fields of health and social care,higher education, and further education. Research themes and questions focused on the support needs of students and staff, exploring (and exploding!) myths about student's "digital lives", and exploring cross-cultural contexts for ICT use.
** Contacts and Attribution: If you participated in the workshop, and if you would like readers of this wiki to contact you, please add your name and contact details to your project listing below. Please note, only registered users of Wetpaint can edit this wiki.
Theme: Support Needs of HE Teaching Staff
Methods/Approach: Using paper-based methods to identify the support needs of staff, as pertaining to instructional and pastoral rolesContext: HE environment, where there is a low staff awareness / use of technology
Theme: Online Social Spaces in Healthcare
Methods/Approach: Investigating the use of Wikis as an online social space/environment for patients who wish to share personal experiences of healthcare and medical treatment as they embark or have embarked on their “patient journey”.Context: Health and Social Care
Patient Journey Wiki: http://patientjourneys.wetpaint.com/ - a place to document existing patient journeys already existing on the web
PEXH Wiki: http://pexh.wikispaces.com/ - a place for people to document their patient journey
Contact: Andy Pulman
Theme: Uncovering Student Use of ICTs
Methods/Approach: Finding out how students are using ICTs to engage in new kinds of learning opportunitiesContext: HEI with an emphasis on teaching
Theme: Technology, Authenticity, and the Natural World
Methods/Approach: How does technology allow people to engage with the natural environment, and how does it allow them to “construct” (or reconstruct) aspects of the natural environment online? The project will use screen captures, accompanied by explanatory commentary from participantsContext: UK research university in the Midlands
Theme: Avatars: Mask or Mirror?
Methods/Approach: Investigating the use of avatars in relation to construction of online identities. The project will focus on the extent to which creation of an “authentic” avatar, i.e. an avatar that is clearly linked to an individual’s “offline” (or “Real Life”/RL) persona, may be linked to confidence/experience levels in use ofICTs. The project will address questions of individual motivation, and will investigate the social construction of conceptions such as “natural”/”artificial”
Context: HEI where online and blended approaches are an integral part of pedagogy
Theme: Cross-Cultural Social Networking
Methods/Approach: Comparing use of Facebook in the UK with use of Xiaonei, China’s premier social networking site. Employing a mix of online “observation” of user behaviour, interviews with site users, and screen capture and user commentary (using Camtasia)Context: Cross-cultural studies of technology, communication, and identity
Theme: Students’ Information-Sharing Practices
Methods/Approach: Researching students’ information-sharing behaviours and socially-shared conceptions of identity, privacy, and data protection. The project will look at what students share, how they share it, and their perceptions / constructions of “risk” in relation to information-sharing and privacy online.Context: New entrants to HE in the Netherlands
