Relevance to whom? Conducting practice-relevant research in international higher education

Communicating + Disseminating Research Findings

Questions• How should research be presented in order to

reach and be understood by practitioners and policy makers?

• What are the possible venues for communicating research findings to practitioners and policy makers?

• How can you tell if your research is having an impact?

Knowledge Mobilization• “Strategies that seek to connect research,

policy, and practice by bringing formal (e.g., empirical research) and informal (e.g., personal experience) knowledge to a broader audience.”

“How Do We Know When Educational Research Matters?”Monday, September 8, 2014

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work from a “diverse range of things”

that happen to “be available.”

Knowledge Mobilization

New MediumsDISCOVERABLE

New VenuesSHARABLE

New MeasuresIMPACT

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New VenuesSHARABLE

New MeasuresIMPACT

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visual

microcontent/nanopublishing

visually organized navigation by

theme/keyword

text

long-form manuscripts

chronologically listed by title and publication date

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How should research be presented in order to reach and be understood by practitioners and policy makers?


New VenuesSHARABLE

New MeasuresIMPACT

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New VenuesSHARABLE

#push, multiple channels

trends with news events

repost by practitioners and

policymakers

search, click-thru hierarchical menus

long-term trajectory of field

published by researchers and scholars

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What are the possible venues for communicating research findings to practitioners and policy makers?

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New VenuesSHARABLE

New MeasuresIMPACT

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New MeasuresIMPACT

downloadsviews

usage

peer-review

citations

altmetrics

expert opinion

linksbookmarksconversations

Altmetrics include “assessing references in bibliographic databases, abstract and article views, downloads, or mentions in social media and news media” to complement, not replace, traditional bibliometrics and citation information.

How can you tell if your research is having an impact?

IMPA

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(Fischman & Tefera, 2014)

Recommendations

Open Access• IE journals select version of open access

• ASHE advocates with others for open access to federally-funded research

• ASHE educates scholars about rights in making research accessible

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#Hashtags and Microattributions• IE organizations codify hashtag

nomenclature for exchange

• IE journals request or require authors to identify sharable and citable nanopublications within long-form manuscript

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“You can put the truth out there and they either buy your books or they don’t. Well that’s not being an educator. Being an educator is not only getting the truth right, but there’s got to be an act of persuasion. You have to say, here are the facts, and here is a sensitivity to your state of mind…. and it’s the combination of the fact and the sensitivity that creates impact.”

- Neil deGrasse Tyson19

Source: http://www.slideshare.net/amclean/data-driven-journalism-telling-stories-online



work from a “diverse range of things”

that happen to “be available.”

Knowledge Mobilization

Ideally, communicating and disseminating research findings draws people into arguments, explorations, discussions, and relationships that add depth, meaning, and value to that content.

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Limitations• relevance is context-based and frequently

nation-bound

• power is “the elephant in the room” in globalized market economy where edu-business corporations, non-profits, and researchers jockey for influence

• my focus on digital forms of knowledge mobilization

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