Scholarship & Technology: Where do we go from here?

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