Some thoughts on how digital technologies are changing the role of the scholar

1. Thinking about Digital Scholarship Martin Weller

2. Current characteristics What is scholarship? Doing different things or doing things differently What are the drivers for change? What can we learn from elsewhere? Our relationship with content Identity Online environments

3. Clay Shirky: Cognitive surplus http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyoNHIl-QLQ

7. 3 characteristics of a digital scholar

9. Digital

10. Network

11. If true what does it mean for scholarly practice

12. No change

13. We do what we did before but in slightly different ways

14. We do different things

17. What about…

20. Drivers for change

21. Not net gen

22. Not some perfect storm

23. Possibilities for improving what we do

24. But don’t ignore network weather

25. Lessons from other sectors

27. We are only at the beginning Don’t confuse form with function Unbundling of services Explore different models Alternatives are the killer

28. Content

29. When it is as easy to download an entire catalogue as it is one track, our relationship to content undergoes a fundamental change

30. Research papers Lectures/Teaching content Conferences Data Code Ideas Debate Higher education as long tail production engine

31. Embrace unpredictability [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--viB3zTznA]

32. Identity

33. Identity Academic identity Distributed Personal/Professional Messier

34. Learning/research environments

35. Complexity comes from the network not the app