The Digital Scholar: How Technology Is Transforming Scholarly Practice

✍ Scribed by Martin Weller

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 209
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

While industries such as music, newspapers, film and publishing have seen radical changes in their business models and practices as a direct result of new technologies, higher education has so far resisted the wholesale changes we have seen elsewhere. However, a gradual and fundamental shift in the practice of academics is taking place. Every aspect of scholarly practice is seeing changes effected by the adoption and possibilities of new technologies. This book will explore these changes, their implications for higher education, the possibilities for new forms of scholarly practice and what lessons can be drawn from other sectors.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half-title
Title
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgements
1 Digital, Networked and Open
A tale of two books
What is digital scholarship?
Digital, networked and open
Fast, cheap and out of control
Technology determinism
The structure of this book
2 Is the Revolution Justified?
The net generation
Context
Lack of relevance
Different attitudes
Overestimating skills
Seeing difference where there is none
People are learning in different ways
Meeting unmet needs of learners
Open education
Lessons from other sectors
Conclusions from the evidence
An appropriate response
Conclusion
3 Lessons from Other Sectors
The newspaper industry
The music industry
Ownership and identity
Boundary wars
A component analysis
Conclusion
4 The Nature of Scholarship
Scholarship
Digital scholarship revisited
Discovery
The application of grid computing or crowdsourcing analysis
Unexpected applications
Data visualisation
Combination
Integration
Application
Teaching
Conclusion
5 Researchers and New Technology
The current state
A networked research cycle
Themes
Granularity
Pushback from outlets
Crowdsourcing
Light connections and nodes
Rapid innovation
Conclusion
6 Interdisciplinarity and Permeable Boundaries
Interdisciplinarity
The potential of technology
Twitter as interdisciplinary network
Conclusion
7 Public Engagement as Collateral Damage
Public engagement
A long-tail content production system
Frictionless broadcasting
Conclusion
8 A Pedagogy of Abundance
Economics of abundance and scarcity
Education and abundance
Possible pedagogies
Resource-based learning (RBL)
Problem-based learning (PBL)
Constructivism
Communities of practice
Connectivism
Conclusion
9 Openness in Education
The changing nature of openness
Digital and networked
The facilitation of openness
The effectiveness of openness
Open education as a 'movement'
Open educational resources
Status
Aggregation and adaptation
Models of sustainability
Affordances of OERs
Portals and sites
The role of context
Open courses
Conclusion
10 Network Weather
Network weather
Remote participation
Backchannel
Amplified events
Socialisation
Changing formats
Case study – the Open University conference
Conclusion
11 Reward and Tenure
The tenure process
The digital scholarship barriers
Recognising digital scholarship
Recreating the existing model
Digital equivalents
Digital scholarship guidelines
Metrics
Peer review
Micro-credit
Alternative methods
Conclusion
12 Publishing
The academic publishing business
Open access publishing
The advantages of open access
Reimagining publishing
Conclusion
13 The Medals of Our Defeats
Avoiding extremism
Superficiality
Quality
Brain damage
Forgetting and identity
Next-big-thingism
Property and ownership
Sustainability
Conclusion
14 Digital Resilience
Techno-angst
A failure of ownership
Levels of engagement
Governmental and funding body level
Institutional level
Discipline level
Individual level
Resilience
Room for disruption
Conclusion
References
Index
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