Opening presentation at International Research Collaborations Workshop, Dublin City University, 29th April, 2014.

1. The Digital Age Scholar:
Building International Research Collaborations
Professor Mark Brown
Director, National Institute for Digital Learning
29th
April, 2014

2. • Director of the new National Institute for Digital
Learning
Background…

3. National
Institute for
Digital
Learning
Open
Education
Unit
Digital
Learning
Research
Network
Teaching
Enhancement
Unit
Background…

4. • Previous Director of Distance Education and Learning
Futures Alliance (DELFA)
• Leadership role in supporting the implementation of a
university-wide Digital Learning Strategy
• Leadership role for New Zealand’s first enterprise wide
university-based MOOC initiative
• Past President New Zealand Association for Open, Flexible
and Distance Learning
• Director of the new National Institute for Digital
Learning
• Previously Director of the National Centre for
Teaching and Learning, Massey University, New
Zealand
Background…

5. Background…
My personal narrative…

6. Background…
My personal narrative…
“Globally Connected – Locally Active”

7. Background…
My personal narrative…
“Globally Connected – Locally Active”
The light comes through the cracks!

8. 1. What is the openness movement?
1. What is the value of digital scholarship?
2. What are some of the key lessons for international
research collaborations?
Outline…

9. Networked PracticesInstitutional Practices
Research
and
Knowledge
Exchange
Closed
Basic premise…
Open
Bounded
Hierarchical
Product
Unbounded
Peer-to-Peer
Process

10. Networked PracticesInstitutional Practices
Research
and
Knowledge
Exchange
Closed
Networked practices enable different forms of identity, collaboration and
knowledge exchange – innovation and knowledge exists in the network!
Basic premise…
Open
Bounded
Hierarchical
Product
Unbounded
Peer-to-Peer
Process

11. How many of you…
Quick survey…

12. 1. What is the openness movement?

13. • changing our lives
Openness is…
1. What is the openness movement?

14. 1984 2014
Long ago people danced at concerts, now they
video, share, click and tweet!
Source: KPCB Internet Trends 2013
“Open Living”
1. What is the openness movement?

15. • changing our lives
• changing our institutions
Openness is…
1. What is the openness movement?

16. 1. What is the openness movement?

17. Openness is…
• changing our lives
• changing our institutions
• changing our scholarship
1. What is the openness movement?

18. INTEGRATIONINTEGRATION
APPLICATIONAPPLICATION
TEACHINGTEACHING
DISCOVERDISCOVER
YY
18
1. What is the openness movement?
(Ernest Boyer, 1990)

19. INTEGRATIONINTEGRATION
APPLICATIONAPPLICATION
TEACHINGTEACHING
DISCOVERDISCOVER
YY
19
1. What is the openness movement?
(Ernest Boyer, 1990)

20. • Open access
• Open source
• Open learning
• Open courses
• Open resources
• Open research
Openness has many faces….
A lot of
Confusion
1. What is the openness movement?

21. • Open access
• Open source
• Open learning
• Open courses
• Open resources
• Open research
A lot of
Confusion
Open
Educational
Practices
1. What is the openness movement?
Openness has many faces….

22. Radical openness…
http://blog.ted.com/2013/01/17/a-brand-new-ted-book-radical-openness/
1. What is the openness movement?

23. Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfkRZWFHpss
Radical openness…
1. What is the openness movement?

24. “Openness is the space where ideas can have sex”
Radical openness…
1. What is the openness movement?

25. Source: http://www.ted.com/talks/don_tapscott_four_principles_for_the_open_world_1.html
1. Collaboration
1. Transparency
2. Sharing
3. Empowerment
Basic principles…
1. What is the openness movement?

26. 2. What is the value of digital scholarship?

27. http://www.bloomsburyacademic.com
2. What is the value of digital scholarship?

28. 2. What is the value of digital scholarship?

29. 2. What is the value of digital scholarship?

30. 2. What is the value of digital scholarship?

31. http://www.slideshare.net/mbrownz
2. What is the value of digital scholarship?

32. 2. What is the value of digital scholarship?

33. 2. What is the value of digital scholarship?

34. 2. What is the value of digital scholarship?
http://ni4dl.org

35. 2. What is the value of digital scholarship?

36. 2. What is the value of digital scholarship?

37. 2. What is the value of digital scholarship?

38. 2. What is the value of digital scholarship?

39. 2. What is the value of digital scholarship?

40. 3. What are some of the key lessons
for international research collaborations?

41. • Openness is a mindset
• Your digital identity matters
• Who you know is really important
• Collaboration is about building relationships
• Networked practices enhance your research capital
3. What are some of the key lessons
for international research collaborations?

42. Final comment

43. Digital scholarship is a bit like teenage sex.
Everybody says they're doing it but in reality very few
really are; and those who are doing it aren't doing it very
well.
Final comment

44. “A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.”
Francis Bacon
Questions…
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