Hilary Risser
Interim Dean of Strategic Initiatives
- Main Hall 210
Research Focus Area
Online social network use and the mentoring of new K-12 educators; Online communities of practice for current K-12 teachers; Data Science tools for performing Social Network Analysis
- Data Science
- Educator Communities of Practice
- K-12 Teacher Mentoring
Relevant Products and Publications
Smith Risser, H. (2013) Virtual Induction: A Novice Teacher鈥檚 Use of Twitter to Form a Mentoring Network. Teaching and Teacher Education, 35, 25-33.
Smith Risser, H. & Bottoms, S. (2018). Becoming the MTBoS: Predicting sense of belonging for a grassroots blogging network. International Journal of Web Based Communities, 14(1), 21-37.
Smith Risser, H., Bottoms, S., & Clark, C. (2019). 鈥淣obody else organized鈥�: teachers solving problems of practice in the Twitterblogosphere. Educational Media International, 56(4), 269-284.