{"id":478,"date":"2016-04-26T13:22:57","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T12:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/litebox\/?p=478"},"modified":"2016-05-18T12:08:28","modified_gmt":"2016-05-18T11:08:28","slug":"tech-bites-social-media-app-to-provide-an-environment-to-help-students-learn-from-each-other","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/litebox\/2016\/04\/26\/tech-bites-social-media-app-to-provide-an-environment-to-help-students-learn-from-each-other\/","title":{"rendered":"Social media app to help students learn from each other"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Staff involved<\/strong><br \/>\nKeith Brown, Dept of Pharmacy and Pharmacology<br \/>\nJulie Letchford, Dept of Pharmacy and Pharmacology<br \/>\nAlbert Bolhuis, Dept of Pharmacy and Pharmacology<\/p>\n<p><strong>What technology is being used?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Second year MPharm students are currently trialling a Social Media App called \u2018Study-Space\u2019 that has been developed in the department of Pharmacy and Pharmacology as part of an Alumni Fund project. Designed to complement a programme unit, it provides a collaborative environment to help students learn from each other.<\/p>\n<p>The current small-scale trial started in February and is restricted to undergraduates studying PA20024, and a handful of teaching staff. The app is being actively used with two or three posts daily. 57% of the cohort have joined the forum so far, the vast majority of posts have been done anonymously.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_479\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-479\" style=\"width: 453px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/litebox\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/88\/2016\/04\/studyspace.png\" alt=\"The app is available for iOS, Android and in web browsers\" width=\"453\" height=\"402\" class=\"size-full wp-image-479\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/litebox\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/88\/2016\/04\/studyspace.png 453w, https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/litebox\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/88\/2016\/04\/studyspace-150x133.png 150w, https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/litebox\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/88\/2016\/04\/studyspace-300x266.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 453px) 100vw, 453px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-479\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The app is available for iOS, Android and in web browsers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>If you would like to know more about this app, please contact Keith Brown: <a href=\"K.N.Brown@bath.ac.uk\">K.N.Brown@bath.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff involved Keith Brown, Dept of Pharmacy and Pharmacology Julie Letchford, Dept of Pharmacy and Pharmacology Albert Bolhuis, Dept of Pharmacy and Pharmacology What technology is being used? Second year MPharm students are currently trialling a Social Media App called...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[95],"tags":[36],"class_list":["post-478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-case-studies","tag-apps"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/litebox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/litebox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/litebox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/litebox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/litebox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/litebox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/litebox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/litebox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/litebox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}