The Digital Scholar - How Technology is Transforming Scholarly Practice

Informationen zum Autor Martin Weller is Professor of Educational Technology at The Open University. His main area of interest is in e-learning. He is the author of Virtual Learning Environments: using, choosing and developing your VLE as well as Delivering Learning on the Net: the why, what and how of online education. Zusammenfassung This book delves into the changes in technology regarding higher education and seeks to define what it means to be a scholar in the digital age. Inhaltsverzeichnis The Digital Scholar: How Technology is Changing Academic Practice 1. Digital, networked and open 2. Is the revolution justified? 3. Lessons from other sectors 4. The nature of scholarship 5. Researchers and new technology 6. Interdisciplinarity and permeable boundaries 7. Public engagement as collateral damage 8. A pedagogy of abundance 9. Openness in education 10. Network weather 11. Reward and tenure 12. Publishing 13. The medals of our defeats 14. Digital resilience

Product details

• Authors: Martin Weller, Weller Martin
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.2011
• EAN: 9781849664974
• ISBN: 978-1-84966-497-4
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Adult education; COMPUTERS / General, EDUCATION / Computers & Technology, Higher & further education, tertiary education, Information technology: general issues, Higher education, tertiary education, Information technology: general topics, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Higher, EDUCATION / Teaching / Materials & Devices