A Social Media Research Network Framework for Open Social Scholarship

Abstract

Traditional research impact factors, researcherIDs and alternative metrics can be used together to provide a more comprehensive measure of the impact of wider critical reflection around technology enhanced learning (TEL) research and practice. Alongside this there is a growing global community of educational researchers that are actively engaging in the scholarship of technology enhanced learning (SOTEL), sharing experiences via open publishing formats and social media (Costa, 2014; Littlejohn, Beetham, & McGill, 2012). Many academic institution libraries provide guides for researchers to increase their research impact via researcherIDs and social media, for example: (Orr & Blinstrub, 2015)...