Open scholarship: leveraging social networks and communities as a digitally agile researcher
Citation
O’Byrne, W Ian (2017) Open scholarship: leveraging social networks and communities as a digitally agile researcher. The Digitally-Agile Researcher, 12. McGraw-Hill Education (UK).
Abstract
A 21st century learning system must educate all individuals in the effective and authentic use of the technologies that permeate society. For researchers in particular, understanding how best to leverage digital and web literacies is central to our collective future — yet researchers have little guidance on how to embed these practices into their work process and product. This chapter identifies the knowledge, skills, and strategies that enable a researcher to act as a digitally agile researcher and utilize social network communities for scholarship. Drawing on the Agile Manifesto's principles of self-organizing, cross-functional, adaptive work processes, the chapter describes a philosophy-first approach to selecting digital tools, the POSSE model (publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere), and uses the #WalkMyWorld project as an illustrative case study of collaborative open scholarship.
📝 Draft Manuscript
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