The digital scholar
Subtitle: how technology is transforming scholarly practice
By: Martin Weller
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
ISBN-13: 9781849666268; 9781849666176
Subjects: Education; Computer-assisted instruction; Technological aspects; Educational technology; COMPUTERS / Educational Software
Description: While industries such as music, newspapers, film and publishing have seen radical changes in their business models and practices as a direct result of new technologies, higher education has so far resisted the wholesale changes we have seen elsewhere. However, a gradual and fundamental shift in the practice of academics is taking place. Every aspect of scholarly practice is seeing changes effected by the adoption and possibilities of new technologies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Digital, networked and open; title: Is the revolution justified?; title: Lessons from other sectors; title: The nature of scholarship; title: Researchers and new technology; title: Interdisciplinarity and permeable boundaries; title: Public engagement as collateral damage; title: A pedagogy of abundance; title: Openness in education; title: Network weather; title: Reward and tenure; title: Publishing; title: The medals of our defeats; title: Digital resilience.