Developing and Promoting Learning and Employability Through Blogging
Marco Bohr and Alexandre Christoyannopoulos, recipients of a 2016 Teaching Innovation Award (TIA), explain what they hope to achieve with their project.
What did you want to achieve?
What potential roles can blogging have in Higher Education? How can it enhance learning and the broader student experience? What legal and reputational issues need bearing in mind? How can blogging enhance research dissemination? The aim of this project is to consider such questions and thereby explore the potential for blogging in and beyond the university.
The project aims to consider five key areas:
- blogs in relation to student learning, academic teaching and assessment;
- legal, ethical, copyright and intellectual property issues in relation to such blogs;
- student blogs for self-promotion;
- the impact of blogs on student employability;
- how academics can use blogs for research dissemination and/or public engagement.
How will you gather this information?
The project involves gathering information on current examples of the use of blogs to enhance student employability across HE. Later in the process, we will organise focus groups with Loughborough students to reflect on when best to introduce blogs in teaching. The project will also involve expanding the content of Socratic Hive, a blog related to two Loughborough modules on ‘politics and religion’ and ‘state, violence and terrorism’. By the end of the project (spring-summer 2018), we aim to disseminate lessons learnt through a one-day event and a research paper.