Modelling Open Practices in Professional Development: Creating a culture of open social scholarship

Abstract

The authors of this paper are interested in developing new frameworks for lecturer professional development that integrates the scholarship of technology enhanced learning (SOTEL) into innovative pedagogical practice supported via communities of practice (COP). Throughout 2015 we designed and trialed a cMOOC (connectivist massive open online course) for lecturer professional development as a scalable framework to create an institutional culture and foundation for global open scholarship research collaboration in SOTEL. We define SOTEL within the context of mobile social media as it has become the most ubiquitous technology on the planet (International Telecommunication Union, 2014). Traditio..