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The Digital Scholar: How Technology Is Transforming Scholarly Practice Martin Weller While industries such as music, newspapers, film and publishing have seen radical changes in their business models and practices as a direct result of new technologies, higher education has so far resisted the wholesale changes we have seen elsewhere. However, a gradual and fundamental shift in the practice of academics is taking place. Every aspect of scholarly practice is seeing changes effected by the adoption and possibilities of new technologies. This book will explore these changes, their implications for higher education, the possibilities for new forms of scholarly practice and what lessons can be drawn from other sectors.

The Digilit Leicester project is designed to ensure school staff and learners are getting the most from the significant investment in technology being made across the city, and that schools are able to make best use of technology to meet their aspirations for transforming educational provision. It will help schools make sure every learner attending a BSF Programme school benefits not only from a school with world-class technology provision, but from an education that is supported and enhanced by the use of technology to raise achievement and aspiration, connect communities and open opportunities.

Ithaka S+R, Jisc, RLUK "In 2012, Ithaka S+R partnered with Jisc and Research Libraries UK (RLUK) to  survey academics in the UK higher education sector in order to learn about their  attitudes and practices related to research, teaching, and communicating.  In addition to the findings reported here, this project will provide a national  dataset that can be analyzed by discipline, institution type, and other  demographic characteristics, compared with findings from a parallel USbased project, and tracked for changes over time."

This study explores students' attitudes to the provision of formative feedback on academic work using audio files together with the ways in which students implement such feedback within their learning. Fifteen students received audio file feedback on written work and were subsequently interviewed regarding their utilisation of that feedback within their learning. The written work provided by twelve of the students was also conventionally marked and this feedback was quantitatively compared with the audio feedback comments following classification of individual comments. The students responded very positively to the audio file feedback judging it to be good quality because it was easier to understand, had more depth and was more personal. Most students annotated their work as they listened and stated that they would use the audio feedback to improve their work for other tutors. Pitfalls of this form of feedback included the large size of the audio files (up to 11Mb) being incompatible with some e-mail systems. Comment classification showed a greater emphasis on developmental aspects of learning within audio file feedback. Guidance is provided for tutors concerning the effective use of audio file feedback. As feedback is integral to all learning this project has wide applicability across the disciplines

The JISC funded Digitally Ready project, part of the Developing Digital Literacies programme has enabled us to further the work done on the Eduserv funded This Is Me project.  By bringing the original project outputs in to University of Reading ownership, the materials are more sustainable, and set in the twin contexts of Digital Literacy and Employability. A drinks coaster, for all your Digital Identity needs The This Is Me project looked at ways of helping people to learn more about what makes up their Digital Identity (DI) and at ways of developing and enhancing it.  "Digital Identity" is made up of multiple parts - it isn't just what we have published about ourself on the web, but also includes things other people have published about us.

Challenges and Realisations from the HEA / JISC Benchmarking and Pathfinder Programme: An end of programme review by the HEA, evaluation and dissemination support team, September 2008

The aim of this project is to investigate the student experience and to explore the characteristics of audio feedback given to students. Our objectives were to gain a greater understanding of the issues surrounding the use of audio feedback in higher education and whether new technology might provide additional benefits and offer exemplars of best practice in audio feedback. Data were obtained via short questionnaires and individual interviews which allow

Bamboo DiRT is a tool, service, and collection registry of digital research tools for scholarly use. Developed by Project Bamboo, Bamboo DiRT makes it easy for digital humanists and others conducting digital research to find and compare resources ranging from content management systems to music OCR, statistical analysis packages to mindmapping software.

Pedagogical designs involving social media and implications for students, educators, institutions and researchers, Minocha, Shailey, 2012

At stage 4 ICT apprenticeship training, Functional skills requires that students complete an Employability module as key elements. Given the diverse mix of students on the course, from those yet to start work, those on day release and those undertaking retraining, the employability module in the words of Dominic Thompson lecturer at Highbury College "Is a bit of a dry subject". So he decided to combine an ICT website design project with this subject area to improve interest and engagement. The result was a series of excellent websites, far better engagement by the students, better results than the year before and completion by the whole class of the employability module.

A Study on the Effective Use of Social Software by Further and  Higher Education in the UK to Support Student Learning and  Engagement

International Centre for Guidance Studies

"Journalists from traditional media are used to going on courses and reading works like McNae's Essential Law for Journalists. Those regularly covering court may have another level of knowledge. But the final resort is always to the expert advice of a media lawyer. Here are some of the categories of law on which social media users in England and Wales are coming unstuck."

This document provides a simple step-by-step guide to creating and embedding audio feedback using Microsoft Word 2000 and 2007, the most common format for student text works. There is also a mention of embedding audio in PDFs, which is discussed at the end of this document, with a link to the appropriate Adobe online resource.

Exploring new forms of teaching, learning and assessment, to guide educators and policy makers Mike Sharples, Patrick McAndrew, Martin Weller, Rebecca Ferguson, Elizabeth Fitzgerald, Tony Hirst, Yishay Mo, Mark Gaved, Denise Whitelock

"Coming and Going on Facebook by Lee Rainie, Aaron Smith, Maeve Duggan"

Inclusive Learning and Teaching Handbook

"As with other forms of Technology-Enhanced Learning (TEL) it is possible for mobile learning to be used in a small-scale and ad-hoc manner. Such approaches are rarely sustainable or, ultimately, satisfactory without wider buy-in from across an institution. Successful mobile learning initiatives are change management programmes that involve Strategy, a focus on Pedagogy, and a rigorous Implementation plan."

Case Studies - A Study on the Effective Use of Social Software by Further and Higher Education in the UK to Support Student Learning and Engagement