Week 3: Martin Weller

Digital Scholarship


Live Events

2011-09-28 12:00,: Session with Martin Weller - We had an excellent synchronous session with Martin Weller. Martin's presentation starts at about the 15 minute mark. The first part is an introduction and some discussion between Dave Cormier, Barry Dahl and the audience.

Announcements

Week 35: Terry Anderson

Live Session Today

This is the last week of the Change11 course and we are pleased to welcome Terry Anderson. Our live session is TODAY.

This week's live online session with Week 36: Terry Anderson on Change in formal education systems, Wednesday May 9 at 2:00 p.m. Eastern (Check your time zone) The session will be held here in Blackboard Collaborate.

We will focus on change in formal education systems by talking about two issues:

1. Interaction - The various types and methods by which interaction is supported in formal education, especially student-student, student-content and student-teacher interactions. We look especially at the capacity to substitute one form of interaction for another based on funding, time subject and context. As background reading please read:

2. Finally, the presentation will look at the various challenges associated with outsourcing and/or decoupling some of the many services (including interaction options) that define typical "full meal deal" higher education institutions  of the current and traditional higher education  model. week35

Week 34: Bonnie Stewart

This week we are pleased to welcome Bonnie Stewart to week34 of the course. Bonnie Stewart is a Ph.D. student at the University of Prince Edward Island, Canada. In higher ed since 1997, Bonnie has lived and taught on all three coasts of Canada and in Eastern Europe and Asia. Her research explores social media identity and its implications for higher education. Published at Salon.com and The Guardian UK, and winner of the 2011 PEI Literary Award for creative non-fiction, Bonnie blogs ideas at http://theory.cribchronicles.com and identity and parenthood at  http://cribchronicles.com. Find her on Twitter at @bonstewart.

 

This week's live online session with Bonnie Stewart: Wednesday May 9 at 11am Eastern The session will be held here in Blackboard Collaborate. week34

Live Session Recording Now Available

May 2, George Veletsianos - week33
- MP3 Audio
- Elluminate Recording

Week 33: George Veletsianos

This week we are pleased to welcome George Veletsianos to the course. Dr. George Veletsianos is Assistant Professor of Learning Technologies at the University of Texas, Austin. His research focuses on the design and study of emerging technologies and pedagogies in online and hybrid education settings, and their relationship to student and instructor experiences and practices. More specifically, he studies Adventure Learning, pedagogical agents, and Networked Participatory Scholarship. week33

This week's live online session with George Veletsianos: Wednesday May 2 at 1pm Eastern (Check your time zone) The session will be held here in Blackboard Collaborate.

Session Recording - George Siemens

George Siemens offered a talk on the nature of sensemaking and the development of learning analytics yesterday afternoon. week32 Here are the recordings: - MP3 Audio - Elluminate Recording

This week: George Siemens: Sensemaking and Analytics

The readings for this week week32 - on sensemaking and analytics - have now been posted. Live session today (Tues) at 4 pm Toronto time (conversion to different time zones), here in elluminate: https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?sid=2008104&password=M.C5CCF43B9CF818DDB4113D9A1017A8

Week 31: Diana Laurillard
Teaching is changing. It is no longer simply about passing on knowledge to the next
generation. Teachers in the 21st century, in all educational sectors, have to cope
with an ever-changing cultural and technological environment. Teaching is now a
design science. Like other design professionals - architects, engineers, town planners, programmers – teachers have to work out creative and evidence-based ways of improving what they do. But teaching is not treated as a design profession. week31

Week 30: Marti Cleveland-Innes
This week we are pleased to welcome Marti Cleveland-Innes, who will talk on the topic of: Who needs leadership? Social problems, change and education futures. Here's her blog. Here is her page at Athabasca. And here is her LinkedIn page.

Be sure to read the introductory article summarizing this week's topic and leading you to more readings for week30.

This week's live online session with Marti Cleveland-Innes: Wednesday April 11 at 1pm Eastern (Check your time zone) The session will be held here in Blackboard Collaborate.



Week 3: Martin Weller September 25, 2011
Digital Scholarship - Introduction

Hello, and welcome to my week of the Change MOOC. This week is concerned with the theme of digital scholarship. If you’re not sure what that means, then don’t worry, we’ll explore that in the next section, but a rough definition might be ‘changes in academic practice as a result of new technology’.
#week3

The Digital Scholar
September 26, 2011. [Link]As I mention in the video, the week is largely based around a book I’ve just published, called The Digital Scholar. This was published by Bloomsbury, but is available as a free open access book, under a Creative Commons license here: http://www.bloomsburyacademic.com/view/DigitalScholar_9781849666275/book-ba-9781849666275.xml

Resources

Week 34: Bonnie Stewart Digital Identities Article by May 7, 2012

Welcome to the home stretch of #change11, everybody.

This week we’ll be looking at digital identities and subjectivities, or – basically – who we are in social media spaces.

I’m hoping this week will be, above all, a conversation: digital identity is always a lived experience as well as conceptual territory, so everyone has a contribution to offer based on their own practices and experiences. week34

http://theory.cribchronicles.com/2012/05/06/digital-identities-six-key-selves/



Week 32: George Siemens - Sensemaking and Analytics Article by May 4, 2012

The Change MOOC has been running since September of 2011. We’ve had the pleasure, in the past 30+ weeks, of many outstanding discussions. The archives of activity/readings/weeks are available on the main MOOc site.

Each week, different facilitators share readings and resources that they deem to be most reflective of their work and their passion.

My week is on sensmaking and analytics. week32

http://www.connectivism.ca/?p=341



Scholars’ participation and practices online Article by George Veletsianos April 30, 2012

This week, I’d like us to think about scholars’ participation and practices online. We will examine this topic by discussing research that I have conducted on the topic, reflecting on our own practice, and synthesizing information already discussed in the #change11 MOOC. week33



Digital support for teaching as a design science Article by Diana Laurillard April 17, 2012
In this MOOC week I'd like to debate and explore this issue with you. A 21st century education system needs teachers who work collaboratively to design effective and innovative teaching. Can digital technologies help teachers design effective 'pedagogical patterns' (or 'learning designs', or 'lesson plans', or 'teaching -learning activity sequences')? week31

Who needs leadership? Article by Marti Cleveland-Innes April 9, 2012
Across the globe in the last decades, pervasive technology and notable socio-economic dynamism have changed our society. This change has made it increasingly difficult for education to operate in insular ways; attention to changing demographics, global economies, new social mores and new information and communication technologies is vitally important. week30

Week 3: Scholarship and Research Article by September 27, 2011
Digital Scholarship and Research

You can choose to complete this section, or the alternative one on Digital Scholarship and Teaching (or both).

New technologies and the approaches that being digital, networked and open allows has great potential for research. New tools are available, new methodologies and a variety of ways in which research findings can be disseminated now exist. Yet this area perhaps exemplifies the tension in digital scholarship most vividly. There have been many studies recently looking at researcher’s use of new technology, and the results generally reveal a cautious picture of adoption.

Action:
Read Weller Chap 5: http://www.bloomsburyacademic.com/view/DigitalScholar_9781849666275/chapter-ba-9781849666275-chapter-005.xml;jsessionid=543AAE770E2327FAFF05AA94554E28FE
Read James et al (2009) Lives and technologies of early career researchers (or at least some of it) http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/reports/2009/earlycareerresearchersstudy.aspx
Look at Terry Anderson’s ALT-C keynote talk: Look at Terry Anderson’s slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/terrya/terry-anderson-alt-c-final

Consider:
Have you had experience of the tension mentioned?
Are the reservations around quality and the role of peer-review justified?
What are the longer term implications for how we conduct, and disseminate research?

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Week 3: Teaching and Scholarship Article by September 27, 2011
Digital Scholarship and Teaching

You can choose to complete this section, or the alternative one on Digital Scholarship and Teaching (or both).

Arguably, teaching is the area where we will see the biggest, and most visible, change as a result of digital scholarship. Even in a conventional lecture setting, students now have access to a vast range of information sources, so the notion of the lecturer as the font of knowledge has disappeared. During any given lecture a student may well be watching a world expert talk on the same subject via iTunesU. Even this small change has profound implications for what it means to be a lecturer and the role of universities. If we add in factors such as open education, the impact of social networks, the easy distribution of digital content, the blurring of formal and informal education, learner analytics, etc then the nature of teaching begins to look very different than it did even ten years ago.
This is a broad topic, and in my book I only focus on one particular aspect, namely what is the impact of abundant content on the nature of teaching. I think this provides a reasonable model for considering other factors however.

Action
Read Weller Chapter 8: http://www.bloomsburyacademic.com/view/DigitalScholar_9781849666275/chapter-ba-9781849666275-chapter-008.xml;jsessionid=543AAE770E2327FAFF05AA94554E28FE
View the contributions to Dave and George’s course on the Future of Education: http://edfutures.com/contributions

Consider:
How might abundance impact upon teaching you are aware of?
This focused only on abundance as one implication of digital scholarship, what other impacts can you think of?
If we were to consider the impact of social networks on teaching, suggest four ways in which it might (or is already) influence current approaches as it becomes more embedded in practice.

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Week 3: Criticisms Article by September 27, 2011
Criticisms of Digital Scholarship

Although I have tried to avoid some of the more rabid evangelism one often encounters with new technology, it is fair to say that in general I regard digital scholarship as an improving force in scholarly practice, and that it provides ways of working that are often an improvement on existing methods. But it is not without its drawbacks and areas of concerns. In this section we will look at some of these, and consider which ones have the greatest significance and validity.

Action
Read Weller Chap 13: http://www.bloomsburyacademic.com/view/DigitalScholar_9781849666275/chapter-ba-9781849666275-chapter-013.xml
Watch Turkle Alone Together Ted talk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtLVCpZIiNs
Watch Lanier You are Not a Gadget:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIwikI7IVYs

Consider:
It is worth considering the nature and tone of some of these criticisms, often based on anecdotes and lacking in evidence. Is this simply a case of the evidence not existing yet, or does it reveal something about the nature of the discussion?
Of the criticisms listed which ones do you feel are most significant?
Beyond the ones I’ve listed do you think there are other areas of serious concern which should give us pause to reflect in the adoption of digital scholarship approaches?

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Week 3: Conclusion Article by September 27, 2011
Digital scholarship - Conclusions

I hope to add to this as the week progresses as it should arise from our discussions.

Some thoughts from my perspective are to revisit the four themes I mentioned in the introduction:

  • Alternatives - ultimately I suspect this, combined with the impact argument, will be significant for digital scholarship. If academics find they can achieve the same, or better, results through alternative means (which may often be quicker), then they will vote with their actions.
  • Impact - I suspect that research funders may play a significant role here, just as they did with open access publishing. They want the maximum impact for their funding money, and if digital scholarship methods provide this then they will encourage (or even mandate) them. Practice will follow money then. In addition one should not underestimate the role of ego - if academics begin to get better impact because of their online videos or presentation, that becomes a strong driving force to engage.
  • Openness - this is an interesting area, and in some respects it is already becoming a cliche (for example read these posts from David Wiley: http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/1934#more-1934 and http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/1800) Openness may yet become another term to be co-opted by commercial providers. But even so, it is the easy, low-threshold ability to share content that is driving much of the change in academic practice.
  • Tension - I think we should view the current period as one of creative tension, a period when much is open to change. In this respect it is both an uncertain and an exciting time to be involved in education.

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Week 3: Martin Weller Article by Martin Weller September 25, 2011

Digital Scholarship - Introduction
Hello, and welcome to my week of the Change MOOC. This week is concerned with the theme of digital scholarship. If you’re not sure what that means, then don’t worry, we’ll explore that in the next section, but a rough definition might be ‘changes in academic practice as a result of new technology’.
#week3

The Digital Scholar
September 26, 2011. [Link]As I mention in the video, the week is largely based around a book I’ve just published, called The Digital Scholar. This was published by Bloomsbury, but is available as a free open access book, under a Creative Commons license here: http://www.bloomsburyacademic.com/view/DigitalScholar_9781849666275/book-ba-9781849666275.xml