Content is King: An Analysis of How the Twitter Discourse Surrounding Open Education Unfolded From 2009 to 2016

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dc.contributor.authorPaskevicius, Michael
dc.contributor.authorVeletsianos, George
dc.contributor.authorKimmons, Royce
dc.date.accessioned2020-08-14T18:51:40Z
dc.date.available2020-08-14T18:51:40Z
dc.date.copyright2018en_US
dc.date.issued2018
dc.description.abstractInspired by open educational resources, open pedagogy, and open source software, the openness movement in education has different meanings for different people. In this study, we use Twitter data to examine the discourses surrounding openness as well as the people who participate in discourse around openness. By targeting hashtags related to open education, we gathered the most extensive dataset of historical open education tweets to date (n = 178,304 tweets and 23,061 users) and conducted a mixed methods analysis of openness from 2009 to 2016. Findings show that the diversity of participants has varied somewhat over time and that the discourse has predominantly revolved around open resources, although there are signs that an increase in interest around pedagogy, teaching, and learning is emerging.en_US
dc.description.reviewstatusRevieweden_US
dc.description.scholarlevelFacultyen_US
dc.description.sponsorshipThis study was partially funded by an award from the Canada Research Chairs program.en_US
dc.identifier.citationPaskevicius, M., Veletsianos, G., & Kimmons, R. (2018). Content is King: An Analysis of How the Twitter Discourse Surrounding Open Education Unfolded From 2009 to 2016. International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 19(1), 116-137. ttps://doi.org/10.19173/irrodl.v19i1.3267.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.19173/irrodl.v19i1.3267
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/11990
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherInternational Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learningen_US
dc.subjectopen educationen_US
dc.subjectopen pedagogyen_US
dc.subjectopen educational resourcesen_US
dc.subjectsocial media researchen_US
dc.subjecttemporal analysisen_US
dc.subjectTwitteren_US
dc.titleContent is King: An Analysis of How the Twitter Discourse Surrounding Open Education Unfolded From 2009 to 2016en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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