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ICT to Improve Research and Education Networks
Greig KrullSaide
Quality Assurance in Higher Education25 April 2013
Agenda
• New modalities of teaching, learning and research• Accessibility of local research content • A differently skilled generation of scholars• Impact of ICT on global higher education and research• Alignment of ICT strategy with institutional strategy• ICT Research Networks in Africa
Value of Openness (open content, data, and resources), Transparency, Easy Access to Data and Information
Massively open online courses are being widely explored as alternatives and supplements to traditional university courses
Workforce demands skills from graduates that are more often acquired from informal learning experiences than in universities
Interest in using new sources of data for personalizing the learning experience and for performance measurement
Role of educators continues to change due to the vast resources that are accessible to students via the Internet
Education paradigms are shifting to include online learning, hybrid learning, and collaborative models
Key Trends in Higher Education
The NMC Horizon Report: 2013 Higher Education Edition
Staff training lags behind while digital media literacy continues its rise as a key skill in every discipline and profession
Emergence of new scholarly forms of authoring, publishing, and researching outpace sufficient and scalable modes of assessment
Too often it is education’s own processes and practices that limit broader uptake of new technologies
Demand for personalized learning is not adequately supported by current technology or practices
Academics not using technologies for teaching and learning or organising research
Significant Challenges
Johnson et al (2013)
ICTs in Higher Education Areas
Research Teaching
Administration
The Charge of Openness
• Open Courses• Open Research• Open Educational Resources• Open Access publishing
Open Education
Based on digital content, which can include debates, video, text, audio, forums
etc
Resources are shared via a global network, both technical and social
Weller (2011: 98)
Impacts of ICT in Research Networks
• Gain recognition• Communicate your research to a wider audience• Increase the visibility of your work• Grow your networks
Goodier and Czerniewicz (2012:2)
Context
Communities and Groups
Identity and Presence
Reputation Connections
Conversations
Goodier and Czerniewicz (2012:2)
Kietzmann et al (2011)
www.flickr.com/photos/langwitches/3458534773/
Access and Impact of ResearchAccess PointsWeb searching
Citation Tracking
Assessment Services
Alternative Metrics - Bookmarks, blogs, tweets etc
Exampleshttp://scholar.google.com
http://scholar.google.com
Web of Knowledge; Scopus (subscription)
Altmetric (subscription); Impact Story (free); ReaderMeter
Goodier and Czerniewicz (2012)
Personal or Institutional Profiles
• Staff Profile• Department Profile• Personal Website • Blogs
Professional / Academic Site Profiles
• LinkedIn (www.linkedin.com)• Academia.edu (www.academia.edu)• ResearchGate (www.researchgate.net) – mainly Sciences• Google Scholar (http://scholar.google.com)• Slide Share (www.slideshare.net)
Goodier and Czerniewicz (2012)
Think about…
• What professional / academic profile services are you using?• Which do you actually use and why?• What are your colleagues at your institution or other
institutions using?• Do you have an easily accessible, comprehensive list of your
publications online?
Social Networking
Openness for your media
Media ExamplesVideo YouTube
VimeoImage Flickr
PicasaPresentations Slideshare
Prezi
Goodier and Czerniewicz (2012)
Improving availability of your outputs
• Create or maintain your online presence• Use your university repository or website• Archive – put online what you can• Use discipline-specific repositories
– http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_academic_databases_and_search_engines
• Change the way you publish, move to open access– Directory of Open Access Journals www.doaj.org
• Become “open” • Take metadata seriously Goodier and Czerniewicz (2012)
Self-archiving
• Put online all your outputs that you can • Placing an article or version thereof on your own website or
institutional repository• Check publisher copyright agreement
– Sherpa Romeo (www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo)
Goodier and Czerniewicz (2012)
Curation
• Diigo.com (www.diigo.com)• Delicious (http://delicious.com) • BitLy (https://bitly.com)• Scoopit (www.scoopit.com)
Goodier and Czerniewicz (2012)
Manage and Share Research
• CiteULike (www.citeulike.org) • Mendeley (www.mendeley.com)• Dropbox• Google Drive
Goodier and Czerniewicz (2012)
Research and Education Networks
• Promote and advance continuous communication, collaboration, knowledge creation and exchange
• Obtain cheaper and more bandwidth and share research facilities
• National Level (NRENs) e.g. SANReN, TENET
www.sanren.ac.za
SANReN
• South African National Research Network (SANReN)• Government approach to cyberinfrastructure • Ensure successful participation of South African
researchers in global knowledge production• High-speed network dedicated to research traffic and
research into research networking and broadband infrastructures
www.sanren.ac.za
African Networks
http://www.ubuntunet.net/
http://www.tenet.ac.za
http://kenet.or.ke/
ICT Strategy • Must link to Institutional Strategy• Vision and commitment of the leadership to deploying ICTs • Require strong institutional policy (resource allocation)• Major financial investment needed
Challenges• Lack of institutionalised incentives for academic staff to engage
with technology• Limited ICT infrastructure remains a major barrier• Actual implementation of the strategy
Discussion
What does this mean for our quality assurance processes and systems?
Conclusions• Consider your digital literacy skills• Continuous professional development (lifelong learning)• Maintain your online presence• Promote Sharing!!!!!• Make your outputs available• Communicate and Connect• Make use of networks
Acknowledgements• Johnson, L., Adams Becker, S., Cummins, M., Estrada, V., Freeman, A., and
Ludgate, H. (2013). NMC Horizon Report: 2013 Higher Education Edition. Austin, Texas: The New Media Consortium.
• Goodier, S. and Czerniewicz, L. (2013). Academics' online presence guidelines: A four-step guide to taking control of your visibility. OpenUCT Initiative.
• Kietzmann, J., Hermkens, K., McCarthy, I. and Silvestre, B. (2011). Social media? Get serious! Understanding the functional building blocks of social media. Business Horizons. Pages 241-251
• Weller, M. (2011). The Digital Scholar: How Technology is Transforming Scholarly Practice. London: Bloomsbury.
• SANREN www.sanren.ac.za
Thank you
greigk_za
Greig Krull
Discussion
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