Seeking Identify as scholars in the digital age has become blurred . How does one stay relevant when the road is paved with digital contortions, artefacts , tools ? Are we scholars? academics ? academic scholars or digital scholars?
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Overview of this session …
• Briefly exploring “scholarship”
and the Scholarship of
teaching and learning
• Introducing the Digital
Scholarship concept
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Activity 1: How do you identify yourself and
why?
researcher
scholar
Practitioner/educator
/university teacher
/academic
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What is the difference between a scholar
and a researcher?
Paul Prinsloo
https://www.slidesh
are.net/prinsp/the-
changing-nature-
of-the-scholarship-
of-teaching-and-
learning
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SoTL related to Educational Research
"... aims to bring a scholarly lens—
the curiosity, the inquiry, the
rigor, the disciplinary variety-to
what happens in the classroom...
[It] begins with intellectual
curiosity, is conducted
deliberately and systematically, is
grounded in an analysis of some
evidence, and results in findings
shared with peers to be reviewed
and to expand a knowledge base."
(Nancy Chick, Vanderbilt Center
for Teaching).
Reasons for pursuing educational
research:
• Examine your classroom practice
through a systematic process of inquiry.
• Record successes and failures with the
goal of improving student learning and
teaching practice.
• Reflect on findings in relation to
existing educational research literature.
• Validate your teaching practice and
build theory relating to educational
approaches.
• Share and disseminate experiences to
build upon what we know about teaching
and learning processes
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Conceptual threshold
crossings largely
concern stages in
research learning
when doctoral
candidates make
breakthroughs in
their thinking,
understanding,
researching and
writing.
(Wisker, 2018)
• Developing an
identity as a
scholar
• Belonging to a
scholarly
community of
practice
• Encouraging
support networks
Becoming a scholar - CONCEPTUAL THRESHOLD crossings
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Becoming a digital scholar
Still a scholar but shifting the space and
embracing new objectives:
• Make informed decisions about how to use
the new networked technologies
• Ability to communicate your research to a
wider and diverse audience
• Increase the impact of your work
• Develop a digital footprint.
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Your digital footprint
Scholarly
communication
Increase your
impact
Conduct
research &
organize
yourself
Digital scholarly
practices: Digital-
networked –open
Examples : Digital Research
Tools
Todoist
Zotero
Endnote
Google Scholar
RefWorks
https://www.slideshare.n
et/rjsharpe/becoming-a-
digital-scholar
Rhona
Sharpe
In this article, South Africans Bitzer and Albertyn briefly discuss various approaches to supervision beyond the traditional one-on-one method. They then provide a planning tool which allows for the negotiation of who would be responsible for supporting the student through which aspects of the research journey: the supervisor, the research group, the expert or the administrator.
McKenna, S. (2017) Crossing Conceptual Thresholds in Doctoral Communities. Innovations in Education and Teaching International.
In this article McKenna looks at a Doctoral community that she coordinates to ask how such communities might deepen postgraduate learning by offering collaborative and supportive spaces. She draws on the idea that doctoral learning needs to include crossing over conceptual thresholds and acquiring new ways of understanding the world.