1. SHARE-IT
A Blog “from Researchers for Researchers”
Martin Rehm, Florian Henning, Joeri Bruynickx, Koen Beumer, Daniëlle Verstegen, Jeroen van Merrienboer
EDiNEB 2012, Haarlem
May 2012

4. Blogs
simple webpage consisting of brief paragraphs
of different types of information that are
called posts and are arranged chronologically
with the most recent first, in the style of an
online journal
(Anderson, 2007)

5. Blogs
• January 2009 - 133 million blogs (Meyer, 2010)
• “new form of mainstream personal
communication” (Rosenbloom, 2004)
• “distributedness” (Lave & Wenger, 1991)
• “collective intelligence” (Chu, Hwang, Tsai & Chen, 2009)
• Group Blog (Philip & Nicholls, 2009)

6. Academic Tribes
- Common Culture

7. SHARE-IT
• Support & Help for Academic REsearchers by using
Information Technology
• Generic Skills:
– archive one’s literature (e.g. Mendeley)
– statistical software packages (e.g. STATA)
• Sharing (tacit) knowledge
 Community of Practice (Lave & Wenger, 1991)

8. Element of Ownership
• “from researchers
- for researchers”
• online polls & questionnaires
• “Talents” share information
– free from domain-specific jargon
– practical example (from own research)

9. Interaction via Comments
• a pivotal aspect in ensuring
the success of a blog
(e.g. Churchill, 2011; Meyer, 2010)
• Feedback
 co-determine trajectory
• “Talents” start discussions and monitor their
postings

10. (Rich) Media
• positively influence user
concentration and contribute
to user perceived learning
outcomes
(Liu, Liao & Pratt, 2009)
• interactive presentations
• screen recordings
• social bookmarking
• …

11. Linking Virtual and
Actual Worlds
• positively influences the level
of activity & general level of
recognition amongst the
target group
(e.g. Klamma, Chatti, Duval, Hummel, Thora, Kravcik, et al., 2007)
• Linking up with workshop-type events at
e.g. the university library

12. “Perpetual Beta”
(Procter, Williams, & Stewart, 2010)
Web 2.0 structures should
not be fixed and capable of
adapting to new trends &
demands
 “the principle of evolvability”
(Dron, 2007)

13. “If you build it,
will they come?”
• Technology Acceptance
Model (TAM)
Davis (1989)
• Simplicity attracted a lot of
– attention (Liu, Liao & Pratt, 2009)
– criticism (Bagozzi, 2007)
 not taking into account group, cultural, and social
aspects of technology acceptance

14. “If you build it, will they come?”
• Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of
Technology (UTAUT)
(Venkatesh, Morris, Gordon, & Davis, 2003)
• Individuals’ knowledge sharing intentions
(Bock, Zmund, Kim, & Lee, 2005)
• Contrasting findings with the results of
similar research in the UK
(Procter, Williams, & Stewart, 2010)

15. Web 2.0

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