Participating in Knowledge and Research Networks

George Siemens

June 28, 2011

“You don't have to wait until you have a doctorate to begin making a meaningful contribution”

Craig Montgomery

Or, how to get the other half of your education for free

Or, how to develop the other half of your academic profile

What does it mean to have an impact?

This is his book

http://bloomsburyacademic.com/view/The-Digital-Scholar/book-ba-9781849666275.xml

Intellectual Me vs Me

Why this appeal to transparency?

Social translucence: visibility, awareness, accountability

Erickson & Kellogg, 2000

Innovation is about connectedness: new patterns, new models

Personal journey

Can’t connect what you don’t know

Influence is about structural positioning with a network

Brass, 1984

First life

Which, due to my business prowess, became:

1999

Learning transparently=teaching

Blurring identities

Collaborative research

Multiplicity

The internet (emerging tech) doesn’t replace.

It adds. It layers.

New journal formats

Open, multi-media submissions

Annotative, ongoing critiques (PLoSONE)

Any artifact that reflects research data set

https://landing.athabascau.ca/pg/profile/terrya

https://landing.athabascau.ca/pg/profile/jond

Distributed research teams/networks

1. Declare yourself: start blogging (maybe Twitter)

2. Interact: Start commenting/participating

3. Manage your information (academic & informal)

4. Review: time integrates

5. Participate in boundary-blurring networks

Upcoming open courses

Openness in Education (DE Masters program, Fall 2011, Athabasca University)

Learning Analytics and Knowledge (Computer Information Systems Masters Program, Fall 2011, Athabasca University)

change.mooc.ca

change.mooc.ca

Twitter: gsiemens

www.elearnspace.org/blog

Learning Analytics & Knowledge 2012:

Vancouver

http://lak12.sites.olt.ubc.ca/