Copyright

Rachel Challen

Published On

2019-06-30

Page Range

pp. 161-170

Language

  • English

Print Length

9 pages

15. Creating a Sense of Belonging and Connectedness for the Student Arrival Experience in a School of Arts and Humanities

Chapter of: Social Media in Higher Education: Case Studies, Reflections and Analysis (pp. 161–170)

Challen’s chapter describes how her university used Facebook Live to help new students gain a sense of belonging and orientation before they arrived and during their induction week. Students who had already accepted a place on a course could watch the Deputy Dean of School conducting a tour of the campus and facilities, introducing them to key members of staff and allowing students to ask questions about their course, or related issues. With over 6000 views of the event and really positive feedback from the students, they plan to repeat the virtual tour at the start of the next academic year.

Contributors

Rachel Challen

(author)
Head of the Learning and Teaching Support Unit, School of Arts and Humanities at Nottingham Trent University
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8032-2509

Rachel Challen has been passionate about the use of learning technology to support solid pedagogical curriculum design for over fourteen years in private, Further and Higher Education sectors and in that time has achieved Senior Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy, Certified Membership of the Association for Learning Technology (CMALT) accreditation, an MSc in Multimedia and eLearning and gives back to the community as an editor of the ALT blog (https://altc.alt.ac.uk/blog). Rachel is currently the Head of the Learning and Teaching Support Unit within the School of Arts and Humanities at Nottingham Trent University and is an active member of the Nottingham Trent Institute for Learning and Teaching with membership of the ePortfolio Steering Group and the Digital Technologies Users Group; she also chairs the Flexible and Online Learning User Group. Jisc named Rachel as one of the top fifty Further Education social media users to follow and she can be found on Twitter @RKChallen or on her team blog https://ntuhum-ltsu.blog/