This document provides an overview of Lisa Harris' background and interests which include 10 years of experience in banking, an MBA from Oxford Brookes, a PhD from Brunel investigating technological change in banking, and teaching roles at various universities. She is interested in innovative applications of technology in education, business, and society, and is currently involved in projects investigating social learning and social activism.

1. Lisa’s Research
Lisa Harris
3rd October 2014

2. About.me/lisa.harris
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3. About me…
• 10 years in banking industry and MBA @ Oxford Brookes
makes me a “pracademic”
• PhD @ Brunel, investigating technological change in
banking
• Teaching @ Brunel and Director of MBA programme
• Teaching @ Soton and course leader of MSc Digital
Marketing
• Qualified tutor University of Liverpool e-MBA
• Student Digital Champions
• Associate Director of CITE and Chair of Digital Economy
Research Group
• Deputy Director of Web Science Institute

4. In a nutshell…
• I’m interested in the innovative applications of
technology on education, business and society
• In particular, I’m currently involved in projects
investigating social learning and social activism
“Educational innovator & disruptor at University of
Southampton. I champion Web Science, Digital
Literacies, Student DigiChamps & MOOCs. I make stuff
happen.”

5. I aspire to “Open Scholarship”
(Anderson, 2009)
• Archive my own work in a public space (eg ePrints
repository, blog)
• Filter, curate and share content with others (via
blogs, social networks etc)
• Present at conferences where the work is freely
shared online
• Publish in open access journals
• Write open textbooks or lead open courses
• Act as change agents in traditional institutions

7. What technologies are referred to here?
“It will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls, because
they will not use their memories.“ (Socrates, 469-399BC)
“The modern world overwhelms people with data and
this is confusing and harmful to the mind” (Conrad
Gessner, 1565)
Technology will kill…
And the latest from Erik Qualman
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9. “No more disruptive innovation, please”

10. The times they are a changing…
• Availability of free content (e.g. video of lectures) by global experts
• University reliance upon ‘Russell Group’ arrogance – but this is a
20th century brand.
• Expectation from students of flexible evening/weekend/online
learning options, as they seek to maintain job and family
commitments
• Accessibility and breadth of information online alters the traditional
role of the lecturer as gatekeeper to relevant knowledge
• Difficult economic conditions and higher fees adjust the risk/reward
calculation of attending university
• Student profile increasingly international and with a wide range of
ages and work experience

11. “Life-wide” and “life-long” learning
Contacts
Teachers
Experts
Classmates Friends
Family
Coworkers
Video
Conferencing
Synchronous
Communication
Mobile
Texting
Microbloging
Instant
Messaging
RSS
Wikis
Subscriptions
readers
Blogs
Podcasts
Social
Networks
Social
Bookmarking
Information
Evaluating
Resources
Scholarly
Works
Library/ Management
Texts
Open
CourseWare
Locating
Experts
Wendy Drexler (2008)

12. My collaborative projects
• Curriculum Innovation
• MOOCS
– Web Science
– Digital Marketing
• Blog.soton.ac.uk
• Student Digital Champions
Digital Literacy (satire by The Onion)

13. MOOCs
• Showcase the university’s teaching/research
/student contributions to encourage enrolments
on campus courses and inspire innovation there
• Sharing of participants’ intentions/experiences
via social media is integral to the package
• these interactions carry an authenticity that
traditional promotional materials lack.
• Mobile/tablet access to course is crucial
• Full range of Southampton MOOCs

15. Digital Literacy
• “Digital literacy is the ability to locate, organise, understand,
evaluate, and analyse information using digital technology. It
involves a working knowledge of current tools and an
understanding of how they can be used”
• “The active management of online activities such as
collaboration, networking , content creation and curation in
order to “stand out from the crowd” in today’s job market”
• “an ability to respond positively to change”

17. Digital Literacies at Southampton
• Raise awareness across the University
• Link Education and Research communities
• Run series of practical workshops
• Digital Literacies Annual Conference
• Student Digital Champions (Digichamps)
• DL Special Interest group – diverse membership
across all faculties and including Careers, Student
Services, Library
• Curriculum Innovation

18. New CIP Modules:
linking research and teaching

19. “The new media environment can be disruptive to our
current teaching methods and philosophies. As we
increasingly move toward an environment of instant and
infinite information, it becomes less important for
students to know, memorize, or recall information and
more important for them to be able to find, sort, analyze,
share, discuss, critique, and create information and
knowledge. They need to move from being simply
knowledgeable to being knowledge-able.”
Wesch, M., 2011. From Knowledgeable to Knowledge-able:
Building New Learning Environments for New Media
Environments | UM Events | University of Michigan.

20. Blogs: pulling it all together
• Use the blog framework as a central point pulling in your other social
media content: Digital Economy Blog or to aggregate a series of blogs as
per Multidisciplinary Research
• Tweets – Flickr – LinkedIn – Vimeo - Slideshare – Pinterest - Soundcloud -
YouTube
• You can also embed other social media within individual blog posts
• Video is increasingly important, especially authentic user generated
content
• Provide sharing buttons so that your readers can share your content on
their own networks
• These activities provide a regular supply of googlejuice to the blog
• Start your own blog

21. What does Google like?
• Social media interaction with web content is
the *biggest influence* on its search visibility:
1. Facebook shares
2. Facebook comments
3. Facebook likes
4. Tweets
http://www.socialmediastrategist.co.uk/blog/
1-news/175-social-media-seo

23. Living and Working on the Web
This module focuses on the development of online identities and
networks to enhance employability in the digital age.
It investigates how the digital world is influencing how we:
• collect, manage and evaluate online information – ideal
preparation for dissertations
• build an online identity for personal or career development
• create and curate content via blogging and video production
• interact with others for networking, team-building and project
management purposes
• deal with online privacy, safety and security issues
• participate remotely in live events
For more information check out the module webpage and video
and the students’ feedback video

24. Successes
• Employability advantages
• Raised awareness of digital literacy and blended
learning across University
• Digitally proficient students can mentor less
confident colleagues
• Active rather than passive learning
• Flexibility of timing/location of learning for
students and tutors
• Study recommendations were made between
levels and disciplines

25. Web Science Institute
• The Web Science Institute brings together world-leading
multidisciplinary expertise to tackle the
most pressing global challenges facing the World
Wide Web and wider society today.
• Events
– Barry Wellman 31st October 6pm @unisouthampton
• Funded PhD opportunities
• WSI Blog
• WSI website
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26. Student Digital Champions:
Flo Broderick
• Met at SXSC2 in October 2012
• Took Digital Marketing and CI modules, learned
interviewing skills and video editing
• Helped out in a big way at Digital Media Europe
• Masterminded student contribution to Digital
Literacies Conference
• Provided student perspective on our research into
online learning MOOCs
• Visited Italy to carry out MOOC filming in Portus
• Now in Madrid working for Telefonica Digital

27. Joining the Digichamps
• More information:
– Digichamps Blog
– Facebook Group
– What do the Digichamps do? (video)
• Digichamps help staff and students with educational
applications of new technologies, build professional online
profiles, and manage social media for live events.
• Students from all University Faculties & all levels of study
• Send a note to Lisa explaining why you would like to join
the Digichamps and highlighting the skills you offer / would
like to develop
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