A presentation to the Canadian Institute of Distance Education Research. In this talk I draw on empirical studies conducted by a number of researchers (including work by myself and Royce Kimmons) to examine academics’ and educators’ participation in networked spaces. These studies point to three significant findings: (a) increasingly open practices that question the traditions of academia, (b) personal-professional tensions in academic work, and (c) a framework of identity that contrasts sharply with our existing understanding of online identity. - See more at: http://www.veletsianos.com/#sthash.73brAcX2.dpuf