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While industries such as music, newspapers, film and publishing have seen radical changes in their business models and practices as a direct result of new technologies, higher education has so far resisted the wholesale changes we have seen elsewhere. However, a gradual and fundamental shift in the practice of academics is taking place. Every aspect of scholarly practice is seeing changes effected by the adoption and possibilities of new technologies. This book will explore these changes, their implications for higher education, the possibilities for new forms of scholarly practice and what lessons can be drawn from other sectors.
The Digital Scholar: How Technology is Changing Academic Practice
1. Digital, networked and open
2. Is the revolution justified?
3. Lessons from other sectors
4. The nature of scholarship
5. Researchers and new technology
6. Interdisciplinarity and permeable boundaries
7. Public engagement as collateral damage
8. A pedagogy of abundance
9. Openness in education
10. Network weather
11. Reward and tenure
12. Publishing
13. The medals of our defeats
14. Digital resilience
