SCHOLARS IN THEIR PUBLIC ENVIRNOMENTChris Batt OBEPhD StudentUniversity College London

Public environment

“…knowledge co-creation and exchange rather than simple knowledge transfer; a dialogue which enriches knowledge for mutual benefit.”

Public environment

Constraints of language

Social media

Anti-social media

Crowdsourcing

Co-creation

Web 2.0

There have always been tools enabling social

exchange

Feet Horses Coffee houses

Postie

Conferences

Professional bodies

Networks supporting communities of interest…

…and generally scholars have been pretty good at it

Status Quo 2.0Framed within existing professional

practices

So, what is the problem?

Towards a revolution?

Fragmentation

Disintermediation

Participation

The nature and the utility of connectivity

scalabilityinteractivity

New temporal and community dynamics

The Twitterpedia generation

Which one is the dog?

The implications for interactive scholarship

Public environment

“…knowledge co-creation and exchange rather than simple knowledge transfer; a dialogue which enriches knowledge for mutual benefit.”

Public environment

Make clear intentions to all parties, as early as possible

Make explicit the exchange relationship and the benefits to both parties

Don’t ignore the body of evidence and good practice

HEFCE Strategic Plan 2006-117 objectives for ‘third stream’: public engagement, social and

economicJISC strategy review 2009-11

…a programme to support institutions’ engagement with

the wider community

Russell Group 2003

community investment

JISC Business and Community Engagement (BCE)

JISC e-Content and Digitisation

to deliver services which benefit the economy and society

RunCoCo and other projects aligned with the BCE programme

Public

interaction is

already a part

of HE policy

“Having a shared (and

agreed) visions of the

objectives of the project or

activity is therefore central

to success. All those

involved in collaboration

must learn about and

understand the other

groups’ perspectives, their

different priorities and

methods…” (p184)

6 Beacons of public engagement: North East; CUE East; Edinburgh Beltane; Manchester; UCL; Wales Beacon

Interactive networks and the public environment

New models of knowledge and learning

Learning 2.0

Crowdsourcing(Here Comes Everybody 2.0)

What the crowd knows

What the crowd creates

What the crowd thinks

What the crowd funds

Analysis and review of data sets

New knowledge

Opinions and views

Influencing policy and practice

New tools for interactive scholarship

New routes to market

Clarity of purpose and relationships

New opportunities and resources

Changed behaviours and roles

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