MELSIG’S PURPOSES

To,

• develop a self-sustaining UK Special Interest Group and community of practice for Media Enhanced Learning that adds value, builds capacity, and stimulates global partnerships and networks;
• facilitate discussion and dissemination of the pedagogic use, purposes and benefits of digital and social media in post-compulsory education, and to consider its future uses;
• provide a staff development focal point for media-enhanced academic practice (digital audio, video, smart and social media, and the use of related technologies), from ‘novice‘ to ‘expert’;
• integrate ‘the student experience’ and ‘student views’ into SIG activities and deliberations;
• be a resource for pedagogic research and investigation in the areas relating to digital and social media, related new technologies and applications;
• co-ordinate a network of practitioners;
• provide information and guidance on practice through its association;
• provide an annual futures report based on a survey of leading international practitioners in the area of media-enhanced learning.

updated 2014