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Mobile Social Media: Redefining Professional Development and Collaborative Scholarship

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In this chapter, we explore a developing model for scaffolding and supporting professional development for higher education lecturers via mobile social media. The framework involves the establishment of communities of practice comprised of lecturers and mobile learning researchers exploring the potential of mobile social media to enable new pedagogical strategies. We identify three key elements of the framework illustrated by two case studies: modelling a community of practice, redefining pedagogy and designing an appropriate technology support infrastructure.

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  1. Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand

    Thomas Cochrane & Vickel Narayan

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  1. Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong

    Daniel Churchill

  2. BGI College, Genomics, Educational Resource BGI College, Genomics, Hong Kong, Hong Kong

    Jie Lu

  3. Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong Faculty of Education, Hong Kong, Hong Kong

    Thomas K.F. Chiu

  4. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of New South Wales Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Sydney, Australia

    Bob Fox

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Cochrane, T., Narayan, V. (2016). Mobile Social Media: Redefining Professional Development and Collaborative Scholarship. In: Churchill, D., Lu, J., Chiu, T., Fox, B. (eds) Mobile Learning Design. Lecture Notes in Educational Technology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0027-0_3

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