how technology is transforming scholarly practice /
First Statement of Responsibility
Martin Weller.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Bloomsbury,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2011.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
viii, 200 p. ;
Dimensions
24 cm.
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-198) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Digital, networked and open -- Is the revolution justified? -- Lessons from other sectors -- The nature of scholarship -- Researchers and new technology -- Interdisciplinary and permeable boundaries -- Public engagement as collateral damage -- A pedagogy of abundance -- Openness in education -- Network weather -- Reward and tenure -- Publishing -- Medals of our defeats -- Digital resilience.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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This book addresses the problems, potential and promise faced by higher education in light of digital innovation. While industries such as music, newspapers, film and publishing have all been subject to dramatic changes in their business models and practices, higher education has so far resisted a radical overhaul. a fundamental and gradual shift in the practice of academics is, however, taking place.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Communication in learning and scholarship-- Technological innovations.
Education, Higher-- Effect of technological innovations on.
Learning and scholarship-- Technological innovations.