academic credibility online
DESCRIPTION
Keynote given at the University of Bath Learning and Teaching conference By myself and Lawrie Phipps.TRANSCRIPT
DEPARTMENT FOR CONTINUING EDUCATIONTECHNOLOGY-ASSISTED LIFELONG LEARNING
Academic credibility online: what does it look like and what does it have to do with learning?
David White@daveowhite
Lawrie Phipps@Lawrie
Academia - Learning
‘I just don’t – I really don’t understand why Wikipedia is so taboo because – I mean, I do understand that anyone can add information on there but then again anyone can make a website, anyone can make a journal, it doesn’t make it like an educational source.’
USU7
‘…also there’s so many people that can edit and modify Wikipedia pages so you can have a less biased and more standardized information.’
USU14
Ephemeral
Validation
‘While not originally perceived as such, credibility is now seen as a relative attribute dependant on perspective, and not an attribute inherent to a source, person or information object.’
Berkman Center for Internet and Society Youth and Digital Media: From Credibility to Information Quality
Provenance
Author
Expertise
Format
Scholarly
Google ranking
Likes
Followers
Comments
Views
Provenance
Author
Expertise
Format
Scholarly
Google ranking
Likes
Followers
Comments
Views
Influence
Peer review
Impact
‘I always stick with thefirst thing that comes up on Google because I think that’s the most popular site which means that’s the most correct.’
USS1
‘Okay it’s just a text, it’s fine. I think it’s because maybe people of older generations are used to using books more. And so like my parents will always go, “Well look it up in a book, go to the library.” And I’ll go, “Well there’s the internet just there.”’
UKU5
The perfect library?
“I designed the perfect library website for our users' conceptual models of how libraries work” @mreidsma
DEPARTMENT FOR CONTINUING EDUCATIONTECHNOLOGY-ASSISTED LIFELONG LEARNING
Digital NativeDigital Immigrant
Visitor Resident
Video - http://is.gd/vandrvideo
Project - http://is.gd/vandrproject
Paper - http://is.gd/vandrpaper
Visitor
Resident
Don't Leave College Without These 10 Digital Skills*
*http://mashable.com/2013/05/06/digital-skills-college/
1. Setting Up a Wi-Fi Network
2. Backing Up to the Cloud
3. Basic Photo Editing
4. Basic Video Editing
5. Google Drive and Microsoft Office
6. HTML and Basic Coding
7. Setting Up a Website and Domain
8. Converting File Formats
9. Online Banking
10. Branding Yourself
Protoplasma Kid/WikimediaCommons
Individual as Institution
Characteristics
Highly visible, perhaps persistent
Readily engage in dialogue
Collaborations and part of networks
(connectivist in their approach?)
Sometimes off topic
Cult of the celebrity
What it means for individuals
Visitor vs Resident
Institutional responses?
[Post-digital] Institutional responses?
Individuals are chaotic, this can lead to new knowledge, learning and outcomes.Academic practice is now played out on an increasingly digital canvas, recognise when individuals are becoming institutions, support them.
Institutional responses
‘Teachers don’t just like it because it’s not the most reliable source since anyone can post something on there even though the site is monitored, it’s because it’s too easy.’
USU3
‘The problem with Wikipedia is it’s too easy. You can go to Wikipedia, you can get an answer, you don’t actually learn anything, you just get an answer.’
Tutor via USU6
“Think Less – Find More”
‘I must value not answers but instead questions that represent the continued renewal of the search. I must value uncertainty and admit complexity in the study of all things’
Harouni, 2009
Visitors and Residents activity
Online course for tutors (JISC)
Library ‘toolkit’ (JISC)
Residency in the Disciplines (HEA)
Visitors and Residents project team
A partnership between:
University of Oxford, OCLC, University of North Carolina Charlotte
Lynn Silipigni Connaway, Ph.D.
Senior Research Scientist, OCLC
Donna Lanclos, Ph. D.
Associate Professor for Anthropological Research,
University of North Carolina, Charlotte
David White
Co-manager, Technology Assisted Lifelong Learning, University of Oxford
Erin Hood
Research Support Specialist, OCLC
Alison LeCornu, Ph. D.
Academic Lead (Flexible Learning), The Higher Education Academy
Wikipedia TattooBy ProtoplasmaKid (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
Ok, No, No signwww.flickr.com/photos/iandavid/2276793222/
Sandwww.flickr.com/photos/johnvonderlin/4302303534
Baby with iPadwww.flickr.com/photos/umpcportal/4581962986
City www.flickr.com/photos/stuckincustoms/3506557840/
Toolboxwww.flickr.com/photos/terry/6156784804
Graduation caps www.flickr.com/photos/whatcouldgowrong/4608963722/
Picture credits