E-Learning Records: Are There Any to Manage? If so, How?

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Author(s): Luciana Duranti (University of British Columbia, Canada)and Elizabeth Shaffer (University of British Columbia, Canada)
Copyright: 2013
Pages: 19
Source title: Social Media and the New Academic Environment: Pedagogical Challenges
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Bogdan Pătruţ (Vasile Alecsandri University of Bacău, Romania), Monica Pătruţ (Vasile Alecsandri University of Bacău, Romania)and Camelia Cmeciu (Danubius University of Galati, Romania)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-2851-9.ch014

Keywords: Educational Technologies / Information Science Reference / Media & Communications / Social Networking

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Through the lens of an archival theoretical framework, this chapter examines the digital outputs of the use of social media applications by students, faculty, and educational institutions, and discusses the need to control and manage their creation, use, maintenance, and preservation. The authors draw on a case study that explores the identification, arrangement, description, and preservation of students’ records produced in an eLearning environment in Singapore and is used as a starting point to highlight and discuss the implications that the use of social media in education can have for the management and preservation of educational institutions’ records as evidence of their activity and of students’ learning, to fulfill legal and accountability requirements. The authors also discuss how the use of social media by educators in the classroom environment facilitates the creation of records that raise issues of intellectual property and copyright, ownership, and privacy: issues that can further impact their maintenance and preservation.

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