Sue Beckingham

Sue Beckingham is a Principal Lecturer in Information Systems within the Department of Computing at Sheffield Hallam University. She is a Senior Fellow of the HEA, Fellow of the Staff and Educational Development Association, and a Certified Member of the Association of Learning Technology. She is an internationally acclaimed expert on digital networking and is regarded by peers as one of the best known academics online. Sue specialises in leveraging the power of social networks including LinkedIn and Twitter to develop the personal learning networks and employability of students. Equally she has been instrumental in ensuring the affordances of social media have transformed the sphere of academic professional development. In 2014 she collaborated with Chrissi Nerantzi NTF to create the cross-institutional online course 'Bring Your Own Devices for Learning' (BYOD4L), providing students and staff with CPD opportunities to develop digital skills with mobile devices; an innovation recognised by JISC. In addition, Sue is the co-founder of the highly praised Learning and Teaching in Higher Education weekly twitterchat http://lthechat.com which attracts participants globally. Sue's teaching extends beyond her own students and she has voluntarily given numerous lectures, seminars and workshops. Her pedagogic research interests include the use of social media for learning, online identity and technology enhanced learning. She has published and presented this work internationally across the UK, Ireland, Spain, Denmark, South Africa and USA. In 2015 she was selected by JISC as one of the Top 50 Influencers of Social Media in Higher Education'. In 2016 Sue was one of eight academics to be chosen as LEAD Associates at Sheffield Hallam and led a project titled 'The PjBL Toolkit €œ Embedding Digital Capability through Project Based Learning and Multimedia Reflective Practice'.   As an advocate of both informal and formal learning Sue continues to engage in international co-learning opportunities. Her next funded teaching enhancement project will be developing innovative multimedia resources to support students in online interviews and digital CVs. She will also be working on creating virtual interactive bite sized lectures using the virtual world application, ALIS (Active Learning Immersion System).