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

4. If true, then society is changing & the same tools impact upon all aspects of scholarship

5. The Boyer view of scholarship Discovery Integration Application Teaching

6. Main question – will the Boyer view be applicable for digital scholarship

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

16. Are these new or just different ways? Michael Wesch – database of article summaries Students organising on Facebook prior to starting Students organising OU Tesco protest on Facebook Teaching culturally specific music via Skype Crowdsourcing research iSpot/DarwinTunes/InnoCentive Open courses/conferences

17. What about…

18. Heppell (2001) “we continually make the error of subjugating technology to our present practice rather than allowing it to free us from the tyranny of past mistakes.”

19. Lanier “Software sedimentation is a process whereby not only protocols, but the ideas embedded in them become mandatory. An example is the idea of the file.”

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

26. Can’t control digital content People like to share New filters emerge Models based on filters break down Disintermediation http://www.flickr.com/photos/helloeno/530649757/

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

36. Your task: Design the scholar of 2030

37. What will they do on a daily basis? How will they conduct research? How and what will the teach? What will be the key skills they need?