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Slides of my presentation at the keynote debate on Digital Scholarship of ED-MEDIA 2011. The debate followed an Oxford-style 'competitive debate' format, where a motion is put forward and two debaters argue, one in favor of the motion and the other against it. Martin Weller, from the Open University, UK, had the task of arguing for the motion. I had the task of arguing against it. Following our presentations, we have briefly responded to each others' arguments, after which the debate has been open to questions and comments from the floor. At the conclusion of the session, the votes from the audience have been cast. The results have been as follows: For the motion - 33%; Against the motion - 67%. I will be blogging about this debate very soon, and I'll keep you informed.
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Lisbon, Portugal — June 27 - July 1, 2011 ED-MEDIA 2011, World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications
KEYNOTE DEBATE
In the next decade, digital scholarship (in
open journals, blogs, and social media) will
achieve the same status in academic settings as
traditional scholarship… ☐ Yes ☐ N o N o
I come from the University of Coimbra
Founded in 1290 (721 years ago)
The University of Coimbra is also known for its early adopDon and
engagement with new technologies
I have been personally involved in contribuDng to this process since the early 1980s
But what I would like to suggest, in the metaphor that follows, is that
tradiDon and high‐tech can go hand‐in‐hand very successfully
The University of Coimbra is also known for its early adopDon and
engagement with new technologies
I have been personally involved in contribuDng to this process
The iTunes U page of the University of Coimbra
“In the next decade, digital scholarship (in open journals, blogs, and social media) will achieve the
same status in academic seLngs as tradiDonal scholarship…
DEBATE STATEMENT
1. DECLARATION OF INTEREST: I am biased in favor of open access
scholarship (namely ‘green’ OA).
2. DECLARATION OF BELIEF: Open access scholarship will not achieve
in academic seLngs, in just a decade, the same status as tradiDonal scholarship.
3. DECLARATION OF CERTAINTY: Blogs and social media will take
much, much, longer than a decade to gain widespread
acceptance in academic seLngs.
The desirability of open access scholarship.
We can all agree it is desirable!
WE ARE NOT ARGUING ABOUT:
Whether open access scholarship will, someDme in the future, reach
the status of tradiDonal scholarship.
WE ARE NOT ARGUING ABOUT:
The likely scenario where, instead of fighDng each other, they will
transform each other, to emerge as a combined new form of scholarship.
WE ARE NOT ARGUING ABOUT:
Whether open access scholarship + blogs + social media will become an alternaDve form of scholarship that will predominate within a decade!
WHAT WE ARE ARGUING ABOUT IS:
that reinforce each other into stable configuraDons
These stable configuraDons tend to prevent change
SOCIOLOGY OF INNOVATION:
Academic systems can be seen as networks of actors
it is very difficult to produce innovaDons with lasDng effects
the inerDa of the system dilutes or distorts the innovaDons
In such conservaDve echo‐systems
and converts them to the reigning uniformity
It is like pouring water in the desert
THE LECTURE IN HIGHER EDUCATION:
THE USE OF ICT IN EDUCATION:
The lecture, used in the Middle Ages to propagate the word of the classics, keeps being (over)used, many centuries later, in spite of the
much befer alternaDves now available
EXAMPLES:
Three decades later, can we talk about significant pedagogical progress?
And there are signs of reconciliaDon between the two networks, which may eventually mix up
Fortunately, the alternaDve network of open access
scholarship has also been gaining momentum
Their quanDtaDve indicators are sDll at a stage of early debate and are
likely to remain so for many decades
A variety of scholarship combining open access scholarship with blog scholarship
and social network scholarship is unsustainable, and will be so for decades
Blog scholarship and social network scholarship are enDrely different things
Lisbon, Portugal — June 27 - July 1, 2011 ED-MEDIA 2011, World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications
KEYNOTE DEBATE
In the next decade, digital scholarship (in
open journals, blogs, and social media) will
achieve the same status in academic settings as
traditional scholarship… ☐ Yes ☐ N o N o