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Academic Evolution: Scholarly Communications Must Transform - 1 views

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shared by cristina costa on 09 Dec 09 - Cached
  • Ever since the 17th century, the "advancement of learning" as Francis Bacon called it, has depended upon the way print publications have organized the evaluation and dissemination of academic work. The print medium has been the default scholarly medium.
  • print is no longer the primary intellectual medium, and it is time for scholars to move forward.
  • Knowledge has new habits, new identities, and a new social life within the radically transformed ways in which communication takes place today.
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  • We must have a scholarly communications system configured to the predominant communications medium of the new millennium.
  • Academics who refuse to transform the way they communicate and value information will find, like the professional journalists, that they simply won't play much of a role in the knowledge commons.
  • cristina costa on 09 Dec 09
     
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Times Higher Education - You can lecture, but can you teach? - 1 views

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shared by cristina costa on 25 Jan 10 - Cached
  • Many judicial, commercial, medical and university practices have their roots in the Middle Ages
  • there have been almost no changes in university teaching practices
  • he main form of teaching in universities is still lecturing, although nothing in 50 years of research on learning supports this approach.
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  • university teaching. Lecturers, in the main, repeat what was done to them.
  • In suggesting a focus on learning rather than teaching - ie, on what the learner rather than the teacher does
  • teaching will be considered important to the extent that both people and knowledge are considered important
  • And if teachers manage to foster the kind of qualities noted above, it is by how - rather than what - they teach, and that is why appropriate training courses are important
  • shift some attention from the impersonal to the personal,
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