Use of ICT to Improve Education and Research Networks
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Presented at Quality Assurance in Higher Education Conference, Kempton Park, South Africa, 25 April 2013.
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Use of ICT to Improve Education and Research Networks
- 1. ICT to Improve Research and Education Networks Greig Krull Saide Quality Assurance in Higher Education 25 April 2013
- 2. 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
- 3. 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
- 4. 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)
- 5. ICTs in Higher Education Areas Research Teaching Administration
- 6. 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, f orums etc Resources are shared via a global network, both technical and social Weller (2011: 98)
- 7. 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)
- 8. Context Communities and Groups Identity and Presence Reputation Connections Conversations Goodier and Czerniewicz (2012:2) Kietzmann et al (2011)
- 10. Access and Impact of Research Access Points Web searching Citation Tracking Assessment Services Alternative Metrics - Bookmarks, blogs, tweets etc Examples http://scholar.google.com http://scholar.google.com Web of Knowledge; Scopus (subscription) Altmetric (subscription); Impact Story (free); ReaderMeter Goodier and Czerniewicz (2012)
- 11. Personal or Institutional Profiles • Staff Profile • Department Profile • Personal Website • Blogs
- 12. 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)
- 15. 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?
- 17. Openness for your media Media Examples Video YouTube Vimeo Image Flickr Picasa Presentations Slideshare Prezi Goodier and Czerniewicz (2012)
- 18. 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)
- 19. 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)
- 20. Curation • Diigo.com (www.diigo.com) • Delicious (http://delicious.com) • BitLy (https://bitly.com) • Scoopit (www.scoopit.com) Goodier and Czerniewicz (2012)
- 21. Manage and Share Research • CiteULike (www.citeulike.org) • Mendeley (www.mendeley.com) • Dropbox • Google Drive Goodier and Czerniewicz (2012)
- 22. 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
- 23. 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
- 26. 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
- 27. Discussion What does this mean for our quality assurance processes and systems?
- 28. 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
- 29. 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
- 30. Thank you greigk@saide.org.za greigk_za Greig Krull Discussion www.saide.org.za www.oerafrica.org This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
Notas do Editor
- New Media Consortium (NMC) – international community of educational technology experts – research looks at impact of educational technology globally in next 5 yearsOpenness – without barrier to access or interaction, remixableMOOCs – High profileSkills – communication, critical thinking – self-directed related to personal goalsAnalytics – monitor progressResources – always connected, who is expertModels – using technology
- Training – rare in skills and techniques, more about thinkingApplying citation based metrics to social mediaLimit – seen as outside role of researcher or educator to experiment with technologiesPractice- more of one-size fits all, but very earlyLack training, time, expectation
- Data processing - Increases in bandwidth and computing power available have made it possible to conduct complex calculations on large data sets Link researchers globally - Greater access to academic resources, greatly enriching research possibilities, Link researchers globallyDigital searching - online full text databases and digital research libraries + Google, Wikipedia Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs) - Content dissemination and student support, Online AssessmentGrowing interest in the social networking in education working sites, wikis, communication tools and folksonomiesEarly uptake included systems for: admission and records, examination and transcripts, finance and management informationBetter and increased access to services and informationMIS to support strategic decision-making and policy implementation;
- Access - Publish cheaply and quickly onlineAlso Open Data
- Keeping in contact with colleagues and collaboratorsResearch needs to be found to be readIncrease citations
- Communities/Groups – engagement in communitiesIdentify/Presence – identify you as a scholar, your visibilityReputation – standing and extent of influenceConnections – relevance and appeal of your work for othersConversations – engaging with others and others with youSharing – allow others to exchange and distribute your information
- Assessment services – search for publicationsBookmarks in mendeley etc
- Profile – present scholarship, research interests, publications, teaching resources and achievementsImportant to keep up to date
- Linked in professional asite – jobs, groups, discussion, connections
- Academia.edu aimed specifically at Academics. Your can find papers on the web associated with your name. Add CV, presentations, resources, blogs, websites.
- Many social media toolsTwitter – link to articles, conferences, follow academic tweetersFacebook – combine personal and professional, beware of privacy
- No longer just articles to share – various formats, think about copyright
- Open Access – visibility, opportunity to useMetadata – locate information, describe – makes it easier to find, adding tags, keywords etc
- Build staff capacity in the areas of ICT procurement and contracting
- Sharing pages and bookmarksDiigo – bookmark pages, highlight, annotateDelicious – save the links you want to go to later – not have to struggle through bookmarksBitlyScoopit – share in magazine format
- Cite – stores papers and citations not links
- Ubuntunet Alliance – REN for Africa, support NRENSTENET - TERTIARY EDUCATION AND RESEARCH NETWORK OF SOUTH AFRICA