Social Bookmarking The use of Social Bookmarking by Health Care Students to create Communities of Practice Ed de Quincey, Avril Hocking, Josephine O’Gorman, Simon Walker and Liz Bacon
The use of Social Bookmarking by Health Care Students to create Communities of Practice
May 11, 2015
Teaching and learning health and social care in a digital age produces many challenges for students and their teachers. A common hurdle for healthcare students and practitioners is the sheer amount of information that they have to make sense of. Another challenge is where this information is captured and stored, with people utilising personal, as well as institutionally owned devices. A potential solution to these problems is the use of social bookmarking applications such as “delicious”, where users can create a centralised repository of online resources, share them with other users, and view what others are bookmarking. This paper describes research conducted at the University of Greenwich involving 160 participants across three Schools and 5 modules, including Health and Social Care who were encouraged to integrate social bookmarking into their learning and teaching. Participants were instructed to tag their resources with an appropriate module code tag e.g. NURS1297 so that a repository of module specific bookmarks was created. Over a 4 month period, 160 users created 1430 bookmarks with 5032 tags. Further analysis of the bookmarking behaviour is discussed along with reflections on the suitability of social bookmarking to create digitally literate health care communities of practice.
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Social Bookmarking
The use of Social Bookmarking by Health Care Students to create
Communities of Practice
Ed de Quincey, Avril Hocking, Josephine O’Gorman, Simon Walker and Liz Bacon
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Dr Ed de Quincey @eddequincey Senior Lecturer, School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences Head of the Web 2.0/Social Web for Learning Research Group, eCentre http://www2.gre.ac.uk/research/centres/ecentre/research-groups/web-2.0
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“Tags are one-word descriptors that you can assign to your bookmarks on Delicious to help
you organize and remember them.”
http://www.delicious.com/help/faq#tags
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COURSECODE e.g. NURS1297 COMP1444
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Research Questions 1. What patterns of user tagging activity emerge through analyses of
tagging frequency and co-word analysis? (based on the work of Kipp and Campbell, 2006)
2. What patterns of user bookmarking activity emerge through analyses of the resources bookmarked and the tags used to bookmark them?
3. What is the temporal distribution of bookmarking during an academic semester?
4. What types of tags are being used i.e. do students/lecturers utilise task and time related tags?
5. What are the levels of use of social bookmarking in relation to resource discovery i.e. do students browse/follow fellow students bookmarks and tags to discover resources?
6. What are students and lecturers perceptions of the advantages and disadvantages of social bookmarking and tagging?
7. What are the motivations for using social bookmarking services? 8. What features are currently missing from social bookmarking websites?
Social Bookmarking Explicit & Implicit Feedback
Social Bookmarking Bookmark and Tag Analysis
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Social Bookmarking Questionnaires
Social Bookmarking Pilot: NURS1297
Social Bookmarking Resource Pack
Social Bookmarking Bookmarks vs Favorites
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5 modules across the Schools of Computing and Mathematics, Engineering and Health and Social Care, participated in this study. Courses ranged from Masters (Level 7) to first year undergraduate (Level 4)
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Number of bookmarks created by users
59% of users (94) created 5 or more tagged resources during the duration of the project
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!Normalised temporal distribution of bookmarking activity
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Social Bookmarking 5,032 tags (1,069 unique)
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Total number of Tags per Bookmark
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Social Bookmarking 58% of bookmarks (829) contained notes
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81% of respondents said that they used delicious to
bookmark web pages as
good resources with 46% saying they used delicious to
share resources
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30% indicated that they used delicious to
find relevant resources
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49% found resources via the module code tag with 77%
finding resources via tags related to the module i.e. subject related tags. Around 70% of
students viewed other students’ bookmarked resources.
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84% of respondents stated
that they would use the delicious website
again
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49% of students felt that using delicious had improved their
ICT skills
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One of the interesting findings is that although bookmarking activity
decreased during the duration of the project, a key indicator of success is the
building of the repository itself, as opposed to the number of
contributors.
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In applications such as Wikipedia, there is a great level of inequality “with less than 10% of the total number of authors being responsible for more than the 90% of the total number of contributions” (Ortega, 2008)
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From this study, supposing that creating over 10 tagged bookmarks is a reasonable level of contribution, then
33% of users achieved this level.
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