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The digital scholar provided by OpenLearn is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 24 hours worth of material. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from OpenLearn. The course is taught in Englishand is Free Certificate. Visit the course page at OpenLearn for detailed price information.

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24 hours worth of material
Self Paced
Overview

  • Digital scholarship is a shorthand for the intersection of three technology related developments: digital content, networked distribution and open practices. It is when digital, networked and open ...

Syllabus

    • Introduction and guidance
    • Introduction and guidance
    • What is a badged course?
    • How to get a badge
    • Acknowledgements
    • Week1Week 1: Entering the digital world
    • Introduction
    • 1 Into the digital
    • 2 What is digital scholarship?
    • 3 How might digital scholarship look?
    • 4 The nature of digital scholarship
    • 5 This week’s quiz
    • 6 Summary
    • References
    • Acknowledgements
    • Week2Week 2: Discovery
    • Introduction
    • 1  Researchers and new technology
    • 1.1 The current state
    • 1.2 Publishing research
    • 1.3  Social networks
    • 1.4  Use of new technologies
    • 2 Changing research approaches
    • 2.1  The art of guerrilla research
    • 2.2  Different approaches
    • 3 This week’s quiz
    • 4 Summary
    • References
    • Acknowledgements
    • Week3Week 3: Integration and interdisciplinarity
    • Introduction
    • 1  Interdisciplinarity and permeable boundaries
    • 1.1 The potential of technology
    • 1.2 Blogs
    • 1.3  Interdisciplinarity
    • 1.4  Twitter as a social network
    • 1.5 Community norms
    • 1.6 Exploring Twitter
    • 1.7 Interdisciplinary networks
    • 1.8 Loose connections
    • 1.9 Interdisciplinary Twitter
    • 1.10  Making use of Twitter
    • 1.11  Possible issues
    • 2 Interdisciplinarity: on the rise or decline?
    • 3 This week’s quiz
    • 4 Summary
    • References
    • Acknowledgements
    • Week4Week 4:  Public engagement and digital scholarship
    • Introduction
    • 1 The long tail
    • 1.1 The tale of the tail
    • 1.2 Dissemination
    • 1.3  Shifting to the digital
    • 1.4  No/low cost penetration
    • 1.5  How the digital scholar contributes
    • 1.6  Creating digital content
    • 1.7  Creating the environment
    • 1.8  Hearing the new voices
    • 2 Engaged research
    • 3 This week’s quiz
    • 4 Summary
    • References
    • Acknowledgements
    • Week5Week 5:  Teaching and digital scholarship
    • Introduction
    • 1  Economics of abundance and scarcity
    • 1.1  Scarcity
    • 1.2 Eroding scarcity
    • 1.3 Free or for-fee
    • 1.4  Education and abundance
    • 1.5  Possible pedagogies
    • Resource-based learning (RBL)
    • Problem-based learning (PBL)
    • Constructivism
    • 1.6  Communities of practice
    • 1.7  Connectivism
    • 2  MOOCs
    • 2.1  Pedagogies for abundance
    • 3 This week’s quiz
    • 4  Summary
    • References
    • Acknowledgements
    • Week6Week 6:  Reward and tenure
    • Introduction
    • 1  Recognition and reward
    • 1.1  Recognising digital scholarship
    • Recreating the existing model
    • Digital equivalents
    • Digital scholarship guidelines
    • Metrics
    • Peer review
    • Micro-credit
    • Alternative methods
    • 2 Best of both worlds
    • 2.1 Recognition
    • 3 This week’s quiz
    • 4 Summary
    • References
    • Acknowledgements
    • Week7Week 7: The downside of digital scholarship
    • Introduction
    • 1 The medals of our defeats
    • 1.1 Avoiding extremism
    • 1.2 Superficiality
    • 1.3 Quality
    • 1.4 Brain damage
    • 1.5 Forgetting and identity
    • 2 Examples of ‘openness’
    • 3 Difficulties with identity
    • 4 This week’s quiz
    • 5 Summary
    • References
    • Acknowledgements
    • Week8Week 8: Changes
    • Introduction
    • 1 Adopting a digital scholarship approach
    • 2 Digital resilience
    • 2.1  Resilience
    • 2.2  Disturbance and change
    • 2.3  How ready are you?
    • 3 Reflection
    • 4 This week’s quiz
    • 5 Summary
    • End-of-course conclusion
    • Tell us what you think
    • References
    • Acknowledgements

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