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......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 9
A tale of two books......Page 10
What is digital scholarship?......Page 13
Digital, networked and open......Page 14
Fast, cheap and out of control......Page 18
Technology determinism......Page 19
The structure of this book......Page 21
2 Is the Revolution Justified?......Page 23
Context......Page 24
Lack of relevance......Page 25
Different attitudes......Page 26
Overestimating skills......Page 27
Seeing difference where there is none......Page 28
People are learning in different ways......Page 30
Meeting unmet needs of learners......Page 31
Open education......Page 32
Conclusions from the evidence......Page 34
An appropriate response......Page 35
Conclusion......Page 37
The newspaper industry......Page 38
The music industry......Page 40
Ownership and identity......Page 42
Boundary wars......Page 43
A component analysis......Page 44
Conclusion......Page 48
Scholarship......Page 50
Digital scholarship revisited......Page 52
Discovery......Page 54
Combination......Page 55
Integration......Page 56
Teaching......Page 58
Conclusion......Page 59
The current state......Page 61
A networked research cycle......Page 65
Granularity......Page 66
Pushback from outlets......Page 67
Crowdsourcing......Page 69
Light connections and nodes......Page 70
Conclusion......Page 71
Interdisciplinarity......Page 73
The potential of technology......Page 75
Twitter as interdisciplinary network......Page 78
Conclusion......Page 83
Public engagement......Page 85
A long-tail content production system......Page 87
Frictionless broadcasting......Page 90
Conclusion......Page 93
Economics of abundance and scarcity......Page 94
Education and abundance......Page 96
Problem-based learning (PBL)......Page 100
Constructivism......Page 101
Connectivism......Page 102
Conclusion......Page 103
The changing nature of openness......Page 105
Digital and networked......Page 107
The facilitation of openness......Page 109
The effectiveness of openness......Page 111
Open educational resources......Page 113
Aggregation and adaptation......Page 115
Models of sustainability......Page 116
Affordances of OERs......Page 117
Portals and sites......Page 118
The role of context......Page 119
Open courses......Page 120
Conclusion......Page 121
Network weather......Page 123
Remote participation......Page 125
Backchannel......Page 127
Amplified events......Page 128
Socialisation......Page 130
Changing formats......Page 131
Case study – the Open University conference......Page 132
Conclusion......Page 135
The tenure process......Page 137
The digital scholarship barriers......Page 138
Recreating the existing model......Page 141
Digital equivalents......Page 142
Digital scholarship guidelines......Page 143
Metrics......Page 144
Alternative methods......Page 146
Conclusion......Page 147
The academic publishing business......Page 150
Open access publishing......Page 153
The advantages of open access......Page 156
Reimagining publishing......Page 158
Conclusion......Page 161
Avoiding extremism......Page 163
Superficiality......Page 164
Quality......Page 165
Brain damage......Page 167
Forgetting and identity......Page 168
Next-big-thingism......Page 170
Property and ownership......Page 171
Sustainability......Page 173
Conclusion......Page 174
Techno-angst......Page 177
A failure of ownership......Page 180
Levels of engagement......Page 182
Governmental and funding body level......Page 183
Discipline level......Page 184
Individual level......Page 185
Resilience......Page 186
Room for disruption......Page 189
Conclusion......Page 191
References......Page 194
P......Page 208
Y......Page 209