New Scholarship Questions
From Horizon Project
[edit] The 2007 Horizon Report: Toward a Research Agenda
The annual Horizon Report, a collaboration between the New Media Consortium (NMC) and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI), highlights six technologies that the underlying research suggests will become very important to higher education over the next one to five years. A central focus of the discussion of each technology is its relevance for teaching, learning, and creative expression.
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With the release of the fourth edition in this annual series, the NMC is undertaking for the first time a concerted, international effort to describe a research agenda based on the six practices and technologies featured in the 2007 edition of the Horizon Report. You are invited to participate in this process, contribute to the discussion, and help shape directions for future research in these topics across higher education.
This effort reflects and embodies the topic of new scholarship, featured in the 2007 Report and also the subject of a major NMC focus area initiative. The completed research agenda is designed to encourage a deeper level of understanding around each of the topics in the Report.
The results from this effort were published in October 2007 as the Horizon Project Call for Scholarship. Scroll down to see some of the ideas that were provided in support of the Horizon Research Agenda.
[edit] What are the missing pieces for New Scholarship and Emerging Forms of Publication to be implemented in higher education?
- Questions about how to assess quality or generally accepted criteria of quality (even at the dept. level)
- Sociology/culture of each discipline; What university values
- Faculty buy-in; tech proficiency, acceptance of the validity of the delivery system; publishing technology that meets faculty and student needs.
- Faculty buy-in; tech proficiency, acceptance of the validity of the delivery system; publishing technology that meets faculty and student needs (i.e. new CMSs).
- Who will be the pioneer? It's going to take a Stanford, Harvard, or Michigan to take the first steps on this front.
- Diversity of disciplines creates struggle and lack of standardization.
- How does this affect promotion and tenure? How does it modulate the severity of "publish or perish"?
- Faculty tenure & promotion, intellectual property rights, right of faculty passage.
- People and process--ways of changing culture.
- Administrative support; collaboration in secure environments; faculty perception or value; generational gap--plug-ins; C/R; intellectual property; legal
- Peer review structures
- Overcoming faculty sensitivity and pride related to publishing so that they produced unfinished pieces with students participating--being vulnerable.
- Tenure, compensation. Faculty commitment to exploring change in time honored tradition.
- Rec. for P&T..not the role of the NMC to pressure!
- Connecting faculty and student research and scholarship; technical literacy in emerging forms of publication; infrastructure for collaboration leading to the production of new scholarship.
- Analytics..a matrix of rubrics for evaluating new media scholarship and new media objects. Champions willing to pioneer the process (faculty, provosts, deans, dept. heads, applicable programs).
- Partners:AAUP, professional societies, advocate(s) on compuses, organizations for admin academic/president organizations.
[edit] What kind of research would you like to see around this topic?
- Why does this seem to vary so widely by disciplines (some disciplines have figured this out, or appear to be on their way).
- Can we use this as opportunity to improve peer review and create new, obviously valuable publications?
- Is technology superseding thoughtful scholarly investigation? Will complex thought be reduced to sound bytes?
- Is technology superseding scholarship?
- I think this is more of a policy issue. How does a school create the same right as the current process?
- To what degree are audiences comfortable/accepting of new mediums of scholarship?
- What is/constitutes "expert opinion"?
- Archive/preservation, credibility, economy of scholarship, market volitility (coupled with high risk choices), collaboration scales (local/regional/national/international)
- Definition of what is "scholarly" and scholarship, legal issues--intellectual property
- Format & access; digital repository; e-space; learning objects portfolio
- Tenure system implications
- How to facilitate collaboration between students and faculty...deal with resistance, shyness, vulnerability?
- What models will show effective use and practice for "the new scholarship"?
- "The Wisdoms of crowds" vs. "Common sense" vs. "Expert knowledge"
- How does each discipline define scholarship?; What emerging forms of publication are appropriate for each discipline?; What are the benefits of new scholarship in each discipline?; What can we achieve now that we couldn't before?
- Validation of the evaluation criteria; research previous parallel situations in the academy.
- Lots of survey. Perhaps educational surveys.
[edit] What are the learning implications of New Scholarship and Emerging Forms of Publication ?
- Until 1 & 2 are sorted out, there will be large disincentives to invest time (on both the authors' and developers' part) in this.
- When this booms, it creates a new universe of possibilities for student writing.
- Availability of evolving research and ability to learn about work in progress.
- Availability of evolving research, not just finished research.
- If scholarship becomes more open, how soon before students become more involved in the review process, rather than end users?
- Emergence of work from unique learning styles.
- Seems like along with user-created content, need forms of scholarship, staff-driven by multimedia. Will bring in far more diverse voiles and wider appreciation of scholarly work, even outside the university across the disciplines.
- Quality/credibility issues, increase in formats (blogs/multimedia, etc.)
- Collaborative scholarship
- Faculty development; admin development---tech savvy and literate. From students perspecive, expect instant access.
- How readily available is scholarship?
- Whole new areas open up for learning via collaboration, exploration, informal and contemporary publication.
- Deeper, broader learning will require new and original approaches to research.
- As an example of the above, the psychonomic archives were developed to distribute not only the peer reviewed article by a scientist but also their experimental source codes, simulation videos, etc. Visit www.psychonomic.org/archive,
- Where does collaborative scholarship differentiate itself from unanolthic expert knowledge?
- New scholarship will change the criteria of authority.
- Encourages creative problem solving, analytic thinking, new learning skills. Caters to user-centered learning. Distributed authority and content.
- Quick pub. Faculty/student collaboration
