scholarship & technology: where do we go from here?
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Intersection of web 2.0 technologies and scholarly publication.TRANSCRIPT
scholarship & technologywhere do we go from here?
"New technologies are always used to do old tasks--until some driving force causes them to be used in new
ways."
~Marshall McLuhan
overview
• notions of scholarship
• read / write web
• 30,000 feet @ 450 mph
• only questions
tradition
teaching research
service
scholarship…
• peer reviewed
• formal publication
• authoritative
• authentic
Boyer’s notions
• scholarship of discovery
• scholarship of integration
• scholarship of application
• scholarship of teaching1997
are notions of scholarship changing?
are notions of how scholarship is generated and shared changing?
enter the read / write web
the evolving web…
• participatory
• collaborative
• open / transparent
• networked
…changes
• r/w web has generated a huge increase in publishing opportunities
• open sharing of information / ideas has rapidly increased generation of new knowledge
• Traditional publishing mechanisms will not be able to keep pace
impact?
• research • teaching• service
• peer review• formal publication• authority• authenticity
what new opportunities for scholarship might be considered?
open access peer reviewed journals
danah boyd on OAJs
Harvard faculty go open access
• passed a motion (13 February 2008) that will allow Harvard to freely distribute scholarly articles produced by FAS professors
science 2.0
• Open Notebook Science project
• Useful Chem
The Institute for the Future of the Book
Knowing Knowledgeby George Siemens
where will peer review take place?
bloggingeducational publishing platform
• open access / easy web-publishing
• digital presence
• making connections / create community
• participating in conversations
• “incubator scholarship”
“How does technology enable a professor to project expertise beyond the private classroom
and into a public space?”
Henry Jenkins, Director of Comparative Media Studies Program, MIT
Jenkins on role of blogs in scholarly publication
new media and other publishing opportunities
Howard Rheingold on Wikipedia…
• Collaboration and collective action
• Participatory media
• Wikipedia is an outgrowth of our natural human instinct to work as a group
podcasting as a new publishing opportunity?
web-based video as academic publishing?
gallery of teachingCarnegie foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
thoughts & questions