Digital Scholarship Debate (ED-MEDIA 2011)

KEYNOTE DEBATE In the next decade, digital scholarship (in open journals, blogs, and social media) will achieve the same status in academic settings as traditional scholarship… ☐ YesLisbon, Portugal — June 27 - July 1, 2011ED-MEDIA 2011, World Conference on Educational ☐ No  NoMultimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications

I come from the University of Coimbra Founded in 1290 (721 years ago)

The University of Coimbra is also known for its early adopDon and engagement with new technologies I have been personally involved in contribuDng to this process since the early 1980s But what I would like to suggest, in the metaphor that follows, is that tradiDon and high‐tech can go hand‐in‐hand very successfully

The iTunes U page of the University of Coimbra The University of Coimbra is also known for its early adopDon and engagement with new technologies I have been personally involved in contribuDng to this process

DEBATE STATEMENT “In the next decade, digital scholarship (in open journals, blogs, and social media) will achieve the same status in academic seLngs as tradiDonal scholarship…

1. DECLARATION OF INTEREST: I am biased in favor of open access scholarship (namely ‘green’ OA).

2. DECLARATION OF BELIEF: Open access scholarship will not achieve in academic seLngs, in just a decade, the same status as tradiDonal scholarship.

3. DECLARATION OF CERTAINTY: Blogs and social media will take much, much, longer than a decade to gain widespread acceptance in academic seLngs.

WE ARE NOT ARGUING ABOUT: The desirability of open access scholarship. We can all agree it is desirable!

WE ARE NOT ARGUING ABOUT: Whether open access scholarship will, someDme in the future, reach the status of tradiDonal scholarship.

WE ARE NOT ARGUING ABOUT: The likely scenario where, instead of ﬁghDng each other, they will transform each other, to emerge as a combined new form of scholarship.

WHAT WE ARE ARGUING ABOUT IS: Whether open access scholarship + blogs + social media will become an alternaDve form of scholarship that will predominate within a decade!

SOCIOLOGY OF INNOVATION: Academic systems can be seen as networks of actors that reinforce each other into stable conﬁguraDons These stable conﬁguraDons tend to prevent change

In such conservaDve echo‐systems it is very diﬃcult to produce innovaDons with lasDng eﬀects the inerDa of the system dilutes or distorts the innovaDons and converts them to the reigning uniformity It is like pouring water in the desert

EXAMPLES: THE USE OF ICT IN EDUCATION: Three decades later, can we talk about signiﬁcant pedagogical progress? THE LECTURE IN HIGHER EDUCATION: The lecture, used in the Middle Ages to propagate the word of the classics, keeps being (over)used, many centuries later, in spite of the much befer alternaDves now available

Fortunately, the alternaDve network of open access scholarship has also been gaining momentum And there are signs of reconciliaDon between the two networks, which may eventually mix up

Blog scholarship and social network scholarship are enDrely diﬀerent things Their quanDtaDve indicators are sDll at a stage of early debate and are likely to remain so for many decades A variety of scholarship combining open access scholarship with blog scholarship and social network scholarship is unsustainable, and will be so for decades

KEYNOTE DEBATE In the next decade, digital scholarship (in open journals, blogs, and social media) will achieve the same status in academic settings as traditional scholarship… ☐ YesLisbon, Portugal — June 27 - July 1, 2011ED-MEDIA 2011, World Conference on Educational ☐ No  NoMultimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications

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Digital Scholarship Debate (ED-MEDIA 2011)

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