The Digital Scholar: How Technology is Transforming Scholarly Practice

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A&C Black, Sep 1, 2011 - Education - 208 pages
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.

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 practice of academics is taking place. Every aspect of scholarly practice is seeing changes effected by the adoption and possibilities of new technologies. This book will explore these changes, their implications for higher education, the possibilities for new forms of scholarly practice and what lessons can be drawn from other sectors.
 

Contents

Acknowledgements
Digital Networked and Open
Is the Revolution Justified?
Lessons from Other Sectors
The Nature of Scholarship
Researchers and New Technology
Interdisciplinarity and Permeable Boundaries
Public Engagement as Collateral Damage
Openness in Education
Network Weather
Reward and Tenure
Publishing
The Medals of Our Defeats
Digital Resilience
References
Index

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About the author (2011)

Martin Weller is Professor of Educational Technology at The Open University. His main area of interest is in e-learning. He is the author of Virtual Learning Environments: using, choosing and developing your VLE as well as Delivering Learning on the Net: the why, what and how of online education.

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