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opening access to academic research output

December 17th, 2010 · Comments Off on opening access to academic research output · Uncategorized

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); […]

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Four elements of successful online communities

November 26th, 2010 · Comments Off on Four elements of successful online communities · 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 […]

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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 on Next week: Investigating the Impact of Technology-enabled Learning and Teaching (TELT) on Student Participation and Student-to-Student Dialogue in Large Lecture Classes · 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 […]

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Upcoming: Academia, Wikipedia and Social Media’s Reframing of Academic Power/Knowledge Arrangements

October 4th, 2010 · Comments Off on Upcoming: Academia, Wikipedia and Social Media’s Reframing of Academic Power/Knowledge Arrangements · 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 […]

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Artistic Research as Aesthetic Science?

April 26th, 2010 · Comments Off on Artistic Research as Aesthetic Science? · related topics

ARTISTIC RESEARCH Call for project presentations Deadline: May 31, 2010 “Artistic Research as Aesthetic Science?” Workshop, September 24/25, 2010 In the context of the art, science & business program of the Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart and in cooperation with the Zeppelin University, Friedrichshafen Art research, artistic research, art-based research or research through, with, about arts are currently […]

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Smart Services CRC PhD Scholarships Available in Cloud Computing Research

August 28th, 2009 · Comments Off on Smart Services CRC PhD Scholarships Available in Cloud Computing Research · 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.

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