A 5 minute Lightning Talk for UPEI's series "Open Appetizers: What Open Can Do For Higher Ed," October 2016. Explores the relationship between open engagement and open research, and some of the benefits of both for individual scholars and their institutions.

1. OPEN RESEARCH &
ENGAGEMENT
BONNIE STEWART
@bonstewart
#openupei
October 2016
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2. WHAT IF YOU COULD ENGAGE
WITH LEADERS IN YOUR FIELD
EVERY
DAY?
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3. OPEN RESEARCH GOES BEYOND
DISSEMINATION
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4. OPEN RESEARCH IS BUILT ON
OPEN ENGAGEMENT
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• Generates interest / input into
premises / outputs
• Is valued / understood by
publics it addresses

5. OPEN AS PRACTICE OF SHARING
(blog posts, status updates, half-baked ideas,
data, vulnerabilities, successes…)

6. CONTRIBUTION + CONNECTION
“Sometimes…I’ll choose
someone with 20
followers, because I
come across something
they’ve managed to say
in 140 characters, and I
think “oh, look at you,
crafting on a
grain of rice.”
- @KateMfD
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7. = OPEN
NETWORKED
PARTICIPATION

8. MY STORY
SEPTEMBER 2010:
• 10 years out of grad
school
• 10 years as staff &
sessional faculty
• 4.5 years as blogger /
writer / social media
observer…
Interested in the intersection of the two worlds

9. MY RESEARCH APPROACH
• Draft & share premises
openly
• Check resonance
against lived
experiences of
community under study
• Share processes,
challenges, & outputs
in the open

10. PROCESSES

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CHALLENGES

12. OUTPUTS

13. BENEFITS:
cross-disciplinary breadth of input +
recognition for developing profile

14. Visibility in the prestige economy of open
networks intersects with the prestige
economy of traditional scholarship.

15. OPEN ENGAGEMENT
+ OPEN RESEARCH =
SCHOLARSHIP OF ABUNDANCE
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