66.029 - Division C Fireside Chat. Building Your Research Community to Impact the Field: Insights From the #Cloud2Class Social Media in Education Initiative Sponsored by AERA

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

To become scholars whose work significantly impacts educational research and shapes people’s lives takes leadership, community-building, often powered by new technologies. In this fireside chat, we ask an international, interdisciplinary panel of scholars and thought-leaders at various career stages about how they are building a research community around the promise and peril of social media in education, with support from AERA initiatives. The session will showcase the range of scholarly products, events, and social media tools and strategies, these collaborators are using to construct a research community and set directions for a growing sub-field. We hope to foster a rich conversation about how to get support for your research, find collaborators, convene important themed journal issues, workshops and events, and online professional networks in learning and instruction.

Sub Unit

• Division C - Learning and Instruction

Chair

• Christine M. Greenhow, Michigan State University

Participants

• Diana Brandon, Charleston Southern University

• Alan J. Daly, University of California - San Diego

• Kenneth A. Frank, Michigan State University

• Christine M. Greenhow, Michigan State University

• Sihua Hu, Northwestern University

• Martin Rehm, University of Education Weingarten

• Kaitlin T Torphy, Michigan State University

• Vanessa Paz Dennen, The Florida State University