1. The document discusses how digital technologies are changing the nature of scholarship and what skills will be needed for scholars in the future. 2. It explores how new online environments and networks have allowed for more open and collaborative forms of scholarship, including crowdsourcing research and open online courses. 3. The author argues that digital scholars of the future will need to be digital, network-oriented, and able to embrace unpredictability and different models of scholarship that emerge from new technologies.

1. Thinking about Digital Scholarship Martin Weller

2. Current characteristics What is scholarship? Doing different things or doing things differently What are the drivers for change? What can we learn from elsewhere? Our relationship with content Identity Online environments

3. Clay Shirky: Cognitive surplus http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyoNHIl-QLQ

7. 3 characteristics of a digital scholar

9. Digital

10. Network

11. If true what does it mean for scholarly practice

12. No change

13. We do what we did before but in slightly different ways

14. We do different things

17. What about…

20. Drivers for change

21. Not net gen

22. Not some perfect storm

23. Possibilities for improving what we do

24. But don’t ignore network weather

25. Lessons from other sectors

27. We are only at the beginning Don’t confuse form with function Unbundling of services Explore different models Alternatives are the killer

28. Content

29. When it is as easy to download an entire catalogue as it is one track, our relationship to content undergoes a fundamental change

30. Research papers Lectures/Teaching content Conferences Data Code Ideas Debate Higher education as long tail production engine

31. Embrace unpredictability [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--viB3zTznA]

32. Identity

33. Identity Academic identity Distributed Personal/Professional Messier

34. Learning/research environments

35. Complexity comes from the network not the app