Becoming a Digital ScholarA workshop for research students with Professor Rhona Sharpe, OCSLD

19 May 2016 This workshop will focus on the digital practices that enhance your study and scholarship as a researcher. We will start by taking a couple of quizzes to help you to identify your digital research and digital learning styles. Then we will look at a range of social media tools and strategies that researchers are using to support open, collaborative, networked approaches to scholarship to help manage the research the process, build your reputation online and improve citations.

By the end of the day you should be more prepared to:- Make informed decisions about using networked technologies - Communicate your research to a wider audience- Increase the impact of your work and potentially increase citations- Make an active and positive contribution to your developing digital footprint

Please bring an Internet connected laptop with you to the session.

Agenda

10.00 Welcome and introductions10.00 What kind of digital scholar are you?

Attitudes towards, and experiences of, openness11.30 Break11.45 Open access publishing: why it matters where you publish

Expectations of REF2020, types of open access, relationship to citations.1.00 Lunch2.00 Exploring some new forms of publishing: sharing scholarly outputs

Intellectual property, curation, MOOCs, blogs, public engagement.3.00 Break3.15 Social media tools and strategies for researchers

Tips for creating and maintaining a professional digital presence.4.00 Finish

Useful Resources

Ready to Research, Open Educational Resources for Research Students. Including guides on establishing academic identity, developing academic writing and research network and scholarship. http://www.readytoresearch.ac.uk/

Connected U, Sheffield Hallam University. Outputs from a Higher Education Academy project including a toolkit to support staff and students use LinkedIn to enhance employability. https://blogs.shu.ac.uk/profiles/

Recommended readings

Danaher, J. (2014) Can blogging be academically valuable? Seven reasons for thinking it might be, 21 September 2014, Philosophical Disquisitions, http://philosophicaldisquisitions.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/can-blogging-be-academically-valuable.html

Dunleavy, P. (2016) How to write a blogpost from a journal article in eleven easy steps. 25 January 2016, LSE Impact Blog, http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2016/01/25/how-to-write-a-blogpost-from-your-journal-article/

Goodier, S. & Czerniewicz, L. (2012) Academics’ online presence: a four step guide to taking control of your visibility. University of Cape Town.

Kwok, R. (2013) Research Impact: Altmetrics make their mark. Nature, 491-493

Weller, M. (2011) The Digital Scholar: how technology is transforming scholarly practice. Bloomsbury Academic.

About Rhona Sharpe

Professor Rhona Sharpe is the Head of the Oxford Centre for Staff and Learning Development. She leaves her digital footprint on Google Scholar, LinkedIn, ResearchGate, Twitter and slideshare.net. Both in her own research and in her role as Chair of ELESIG (a national special interest group in her research area) she uses open tools to collaborate with others as well as to disseminate her work. She is a tutor on the Open University’s H818 course 'The Networked Practitioner', which supports developing educational researchers to use the open, digital world effectively. She has co-edited two books for Routledge, Rethinking Pedagogy for a Digital Age and Rethinking Learning for a Digital Age.

About the Oxford Centre for Staff and Learning Development

The Oxford Centre for Staff and Learning Development (OCSLD) is one of the UK’s largest and most established providers of staff and educational development for further and higher education. We run workshops and online courses for other further and higher education institutions. We also publish books, create and sustain special interest groups and online communities and undertake a range of consultancies including workshops, authoring, editing and evaluation. Our areas of expertise include online learning, learning design, inclusive teaching, assessment and feedback, coaching and mentoring and academic writing.