academic credibility online

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)

Thanks

David White - @daveowhite

david.white@conted.ox.ac.uk

Lawrie Phipps - @Lawrie

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

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City www.flickr.com/photos/stuckincustoms/3506557840/

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