Scholarship in the digital age

Scholarship
in the
Digital Age
Challenges &
opportunities
Coleg Llandrillo Cymru 5 July 2011 http://www.flickr.com/photos/ajc1/4437163129/

Lis Parcell
Senior E-learning Advisor
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@lisparcell
JISC RSC Wales
www.rsc-wales.ac.uk
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01792 295959
@rscwales
Paul Richardson [email_address] @paulbrichardson Sharon Crossan [email_address] @libshari

Research info: from the 80s... For image acknowledgments see final slide

...to now For image acknowledgments see final slide

The academic research cycle Source: Social Media a guide for researchers. Research Information Network, 2011, p.15 http://www.rin.ac.uk/system/files/attachments/social_media_guide_for_screen.pdf

Social and professional networking e.g. Academia.edu LinkedIn.com Ning.com – many groups such as ELESIG and GWELLA

Social bookmarking and social citation http://www.delicious.com/lisparcell/digital_scholarship

Blogging and microblogging http://blog.cpjobling.me/ twitter.com http://www.freetech4teachers.com/

Presentation sharing tools http://www.slideshare.net / http://www.slideshare.net/lisparcell/

Collaboration tools for research and writing http://jiscdesignstudio.pbworks.com

Project management, meeting and collaboration tools http://bigbluebutton.org/ http://www.elluminate.com/

Social media: a guide for researchers http://www.rin.ac.uk/our-work/communicating-and-disseminating-research/social-media-guide-researchers

Digital literacy
“ the ability to participate in a range of critical and creative practices that involve understanding, sharing and creating meaning with different kinds of technology and media.”
From Futurelab: Digital literacy across the curriculum http://www.futurelab.org.uk/resources/documents/handbooks/digital_literacy.pdf

JISC: Digital literacies for HE/FE
ICT literacy
Information literacy
Visual & multimedia literacy
Communication and collaboration
Learning skills
Life-planning
Digital scholarship
“ Digital literacy defines those capabilities which fit an individual for living, learning and working in a digital society”
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/developingdigitalliteracies

Digital scholarship
the ability to participate in emerging academic, professional and research practices that depend on digital systems, for example:
use of digital content (including digitised collections of primary and secondary material as well as open content) in teaching, learning and research
use of virtual learning and research environments
use of emergent technologies in research contexts
open publication
the awareness of issues around content discovery, authority, reliability, provenance, licence restrictions, adaption/repurposing and assessment of sources

Information literacy at research level
Systematically maintain in depth, up to date subject knowledge
Understand how research is generated and disseminated
Use a range of sources in different media
Search confidently across a range of media
Apply critical appraisal skills
Manage a large volume of information
Have personal criteria to filter information
Synthesise complex information
Use appropriate tools for sharing and communicating
Understand ethical and legal requirements
Construct a bibliography; referencing
From level 7/Master’s level in http://library.wales.org/information-literacy/national-information-literacy-framework/

3 workshop topics for discussion Two key priorities and one question per group

Group 1
Thinking about your particular discipline or role, in what ways do you think digital communication can help or hinder you in developing scholarly activity?

Group 2
How could the development of digital scholarly approaches have an impact on other areas of work (eg teaching, student support, administration, management)?

Group 3
What new skills do you think are needed by the digitally literate researcher?

Image credits for slides 3-4
Card catalogue http://www.flickr.com/photos/jlt/3304667756
Abstracts and indices http://www.flickr.com/photos/binglib/2342711185
Librarian consultation http://www.flickr.com/photos/wendt-library/536407209
Theses http://www.flickr.com/photos/anthonycramp/4034671172
Government publications http://www.flickr.com/photos/jennieb/52581192/
Open access http://www.flickr.com/photos/wakingtiger/3157622608/
Web 2.0 logos http://www.flickr.com/photos/stabilo-boss/93136022
NLW Digital Mirror http://www.llgc.org.uk/index.php?id=temperancenlwms8323b

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