Scholarshipin the

Digital Age

Challenges &opportunities

Coleg Llandrillo Cymru 5 July 2011

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Lis ParcellSenior E-learning Advisore.j.parcell@swansea.ac.uk@lisparcell

JISC RSC Waleswww.rsc-wales.ac.uksupport@rsc-wales.ac.uk 01792 295959@rscwales

Paul Richardsonp.b.r.richardson@swansea.ac.uk @paulbrichardson

Sharon Crossans.crossan@swansea.ac.uk @libshari

Research info: from the 80s...

For image acknowledgments see final slide

...to now

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final slide

The academic research cycle

Source: Social Media a guide for researchers. Research Information Network, 2011, p.15 http://www.rin.ac.uk/system/files/attachments/social_media_guide_for_screen.pdf

Social and professional networkinge.g.Academia.eduLinkedIn.comNing.com – many groups such as ELESIG and GWELLA

Social bookmarking and social citation

http://www.delicious.com/lisparcell/digital_scholarship

Blogging and microblogging

http://blog.cpjobling.me/

twitter.com

http://www.freetech4teachers.com/

Presentation sharing tools

http://www.slideshare.net /http://www.slideshare.net/lisparcell/

Collaboration tools for research and writing

http://jiscdesignstudio.pbworks.com

Project management, meeting and collaboration tools

http://bigbluebutton.org/

http://www.elluminate.com/

Social media: a guide for researchers

http://www.rin.ac.uk/our-work/communicating-and-disseminating-research/social-media-guide-researchers

Digital literacy

• “the ability to participate in a range of critical and creative practices that involve understanding, sharing and creating meaning with different kinds of technology and media.”

From Futurelab: Digital literacy across the curriculum http://www.futurelab.org.uk/resources/documents/handbooks/digital_literacy.pdf

JISC: Digital literacies for HE/FE• ICT literacy• Information literacy• Visual & multimedia

literacy• Communication and

collaboration• Learning skills• Life-planning• Digital scholarship

• “Digital literacy defines those capabilities which fit an individual for living, learning and working in a digital society”

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/developingdigitalliteracies

Digital scholarship• the ability to participate in emerging academic, professional and

research practices that depend on digital systems, for example:• use of digital content (including digitised collections of primary

and secondary material as well as open content) in teaching, learning and research

• use of virtual learning and research environments• use of emergent technologies in research contexts• open publication• the awareness of issues around content discovery, authority,

reliability, provenance, licence restrictions, adaption/repurposing and assessment of sources

Information literacy at research level– Systematically maintain in depth, up to date subject knowledge– Understand how research is generated and disseminated– Use a range of sources in different media– Search confidently across a range of media– Apply critical appraisal skills– Manage a large volume of information– Have personal criteria to filter information– Synthesise complex information– Use appropriate tools for sharing and communicating– Understand ethical and legal requirements– Construct a bibliography; referencing

• From level 7/Master’s level in http://library.wales.org/information-literacy/national-information-literacy-framework/

3 workshop topics for discussion

Two key priorities and one question per group

Group 1

• Thinking about your particular discipline or role, in what ways do you think digital communication can help or hinder you in developing scholarly activity?

Group 2

• How could the development of digital scholarly approaches have an impact on other areas of work (eg teaching, student support, administration, management)?

Group 3

• What new skills do you think are needed by the digitally literate researcher?

Image credits for slides 3-4- Card catalogue http://www.flickr.com/photos/jlt/3304667756 - Abstracts and indices http://www.flickr.com/photos/binglib/2342711185 - Librarian consultation http://www.flickr.com/photos/wendt-library/536407209 - Theses http://www.flickr.com/photos/anthonycramp/4034671172 - Government publications http://www.flickr.com/photos/jennieb/52581192/- Open access http://www.flickr.com/photos/wakingtiger/3157622608/- Web 2.0 logos http://www.flickr.com/photos/stabilo-boss/93136022- NLW Digital Mirror http://www.llgc.org.uk/index.php?id=temperancenlwms8323b