It was great to see this paper published recently in Globalisation, Societies and Education! Me and Mark have been interested in social media policies at UK higher education institutions for a number of years now, and went through a couple of iterations of data collection and analysis over this period. It was also my first … Read More
Last week I was fortunate to attend the OER25 conference. Although I’ve been on the conference committee a few times, it was my first time actually attending the conference. It was a great opportunity to catch up with lots of connections who I hadn’t seen in person for a very long time 🙂 There was … Read More
The second paper from the ‘Sort by Relevance’ project on algorithmic ranking in academic literature searches was published in Postdigital Science and Education: Jordan, K., & Tsai, S. P. (2024). Ranking ‘by Relevance’ in Academic Literature Searches: Prevalence, Definitions, and Implications. Postdigital Science and Education, Article e66212. Advance online publication.…
This paper is one of the publications from working in collaboration with Phoebe, Albina and Lydia and the team at M-Shule. It is a short case study paper, looking at the approach and usage analytics from how M-Shule supported the Keep Kenya Learning initiative during the pandemic. Drawing on this, we make suggestions for the … Read More
This is the first journal article to be published from the SRHE ‘Sort By Relevance’ project. In this paper, Sally and I draw upon survey data and co-interpretive interviews where participants conducted and interpreted live searches to report the findings about the beliefs and assumptions that academics hold about how opaque ‘relevance’ ranking algorithms work, … Read More
Earlier today I took part in a panel discussion as part of this months’ #TELResearchers webinar. Many thanks to Puiyin for inviting me – we had a very interesting and wide-ranging discussion about PhD study in TEL. One of the things which I mentioned was that I would encourage PhD students to get involved as … Read More
Me and Mark (Carrigan) recently co-edited a special collection of JIME, prompted by the changes at Twitter(/X) and the changing social media landscape. Many thanks to all of the authors who submitted papers – while we conclude that it’s still a bit early to tell the impact of the changes at ‘X’, the papers present … Read More
A couple of months ago, I blogged about a new project I’m working on this year, funded by the SRHE research grants. Through the project, I am looking at ranking by ‘relevance’ in academic literature databases; so for example, when you do a Google Scholar search, the results are shown to you listed with the … Read More
I’m excited to be taking on a new role at the Journal of Interactive Media in Education; I have served as an associate editor for the past few years, and I’m now very excited to be taking up the baton of co-editor from Ann Jones, who is retiring from the Institute of Educational Technology. As … Read More
It is a decade since Pappano famously described 2012 to as ‘the year of the MOOC’. To mark this milestone, Fereshte Goshtasbpour and I are putting together a special virtual collection at the Journal of Interactive Media in Education, bringing together and charting trends across the MOOC-focused articles which have been published in JIME over … Read More