Academic social media networks connect and support users by enabling them to (a) add their own publications and access others’ research; (b) connect with colleagues, peers, co-authors, and other specialists in your field, and (c) obtain statistics on views, downloads, citations of your research. Topics shared on these sites are specifically geared for scholarly exchange and cover a wide array of disciplines.
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Re-Imagining and Re-Structuring Scholarship, Teaching, and Learning in Digital Environments
Melissa Layne (American Public University System, USA) and Phil Ice (American Public University System, USA)
Copyright: © 2015
|Pages: 21
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-8170-5.ch020
Abstract
This chapter explores how digital scholarship, teaching, and learning is dramatically changing the educational landscape. New pedagogies are being reimagined and restructured in ways never before conceptualized. Despite the need to transform current models of scholarship, scholars and publishers have been sluggish to do so. The review of literature sheds light upon this hesitation, revealing two themes: 1) the lack of incentives for moving scholarship beyond the traditional criteria for promotion and tenure and 2) lack of technical skills to create digital works. The remainder of the chapter explores these themes further by highlighting topics including the democratization of digital publication, paradigmatic shifts, and digital spaces. Contemporary and future pathways are proposed in accessibility, following magazine publishers' lead for digitizing scholarship and including analytics in publication. The conclusion reiterates that although new communication methods will yield new methods of society's organization, the essence of scholarship will remain constant, academics will continue to converse, address problems with evidence, and disseminate findings.