Moving on from my qualms about delicious’ shaky future, here’s a great article about alt-metrics and how academic scholarship and publishing is changing. In growing numbers, scholars are moving their everyday work to the web. Online reference managers Zotero and Mendeley each claim to store over 40 million articles (making them substantially larger than PubMed); [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Research'
opening access to academic research output
December 17th, 2010 · Comments Off · Uncategorized
Tags:access·bookmarking·digitalHumanities·library·referencing·Research
Four elements of successful online communities
November 26th, 2010 · Comments Off · Uncategorized
I thought this DAAO blog would be a great place to share the direction I’m going with looking at community engagement, especially with regards to social media strategy. As part of my literature review, I’m looking at practical guides to social media, and this post is a little foray into the ideas coming though in [...]
ECAR study of undergrad. students & IT
October 27th, 2010 · Comments Off · Research, Trends
The ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology, 2010 is now available online. Since 2004, the annual study has asked undergraduate students ‘about the technology they own and how they use it in and out of their academic world’. Excerpt from the Key Findings conclusion: ‘Our study suggests that mobile computing is on the [...]
Next week: Investigating the Impact of Technology-enabled Learning and Teaching (TELT) on Student Participation and Student-to-Student Dialogue in Large Lecture Classes
October 12th, 2010 · Comments Off · Research, Showcasing Teaching
Dr Katrina Moore, FASS 18 October, 12.30 – 2pm Learning & Teaching Workshop (Room 416), Level 4 Mathews Building This workshop will explore the role that online discussion forums can play in facilitating dialogue and interaction among students in large lecture classes. Findings from a research project currently underway in a 2nd-year FASS course will [...]
Tags:large classes·learning and teaching·lectures·Research·technology·telt
Upcoming: Academia, Wikipedia and Social Media’s Reframing of Academic Power/Knowledge Arrangements
October 4th, 2010 · Comments Off · Research, Researching Learning and Teaching
Dr Henk Eijkman, ADFA 11 October, 12.30 – 2pm Learning & Teaching Workshop (Room 416), Level 4 Mathews Building While there is much hype about academics’ attitude to Wikipedia there have been few if any empirical studies. The aim of this research was to ascertain how academics respond to Wikipedia as an iconic social media [...]
Insights into students’ ‘thinking’ with handheld computers
August 11th, 2010 · Comments Off · Announcements, bbstaffannouncements, Blackboard student announcements, Learning & teaching, Research, Tools & applications
Public lecture, Monday 16 August 2010, in Room 119 of the John Goodsell Building (Level 1) School of Education, University of New South Wales http://education.arts.unsw.edu.au/news-and-events/public-lecture-insights-into-students-thinking-with-handheld-computers-570.html Abstract The impact of the handheld computer (PDA) as a motivational learning tool has been described in numerous articles. As a pedagogical tool, it has the capacity to enable students [...]
Social bookmarking
April 12th, 2010 · Comments Off · bbstaff, bbstaffannouncements, Research, Resources, Tools & applications, UNFED
One of the most useful technologies for academics is social bookmarking. Regardless of what tool you choose to use (determined largely by your community of practice) the service allows you to save favourite sites online (as opposed to your personal browser), and to share these with a team or network. At UNSW we’ve been trialling [...]
Smart Services CRC PhD Scholarships Available in Cloud Computing Research
August 28th, 2009 · Comments Off · Uncategorized
Thanks to Wayne, the scholarships are now being advertised, happy to talk to any final year students expecting to receive 1st class honours with WAM > 85, and or industry professionals interested in pursuing some research work for a while.
Tags:cloud computing·Research·UNSW
HE in a Web 2.0 World: report
May 13th, 2009 · Comments Off · Learning & teaching, Research
The Higher Education Academy and JISC have released the HE in a Web 2.0 World report, which looks at the projected future trends in the use of technology in higher education. ‘Findings from the report show that students typically spend four hours a day online, a figure that looks set to rise as teenagers make [...]
Tags:academia·Education·education2.0·highereducation·networkedlearning·Research·web2.0