i took an awful lot away from this session, and i'm not sure that i've had time to process it all yet. but just thinking about the ways in which information sharing and (informal) publication of research is shifting is mind boggling. the speaker talked about a number of things, including:
- social vs static learning - is 'static' presentation (ie, traditional research journals) really an adequate or appropriate medium for sharing this?
- the emergence of 'millennial scholars' - students with teaching roles and staff with learning roles are blurring the boundaries between staff/student skills [and an interesting aside on the perceived barriers to technology engagement: students concerned about using technology for learning, eg, "we know how to use technology, but not how to do anything with it"] and how it's difficult for people to publish and share their work in appropriate, dynamic and accepted peer-review ways
there were three fairly cool applications or sites mentioned that may help research/publication. in no particular order [although the first one is probably my favourite]:
- academic intersections - part of the apple learning initiative - a way of publishing media rich, peer-reviewed research. it looks good, and with a much quicker turn around than traditional journals
- diigo - looks like a useful and usable version of refworks :)
- zotero - a firefox extension [for those of you who are foxy fans] that bills itself as a 'next-generation research tool'
i think i particularly enjoyed this session as our presentation was about open/web2.0-ey data generation methods, so it's interesting to think about the evolving research cycle as it goes full-circle from data to peer-review publication. and the presenter was funny, too, which always helps.
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