The digital scholar : : how technology is transforming scholarly practice / / Martin Weller.

• VerfasserIn: Weller, Martin,
• Place / Publishing House: London : : Bloomsbury Academic,, 2011.
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (200 pages) :; tables; digital file(s).
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

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...

Table of Contents

• Cover; 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 SectorsThe 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 BoundariesInterdisciplinarity; 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 networkedThe 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 modelDigital 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