1.2 Digital Technologies 1.3 Digital Competences 1.4 The Digital Scholar 1.5 The Digital Scholar Framework 1.5.1 The Digital Scholar as a Human Being 1.5.2 The Digital Scholar as an Academic 1.5.3 The Digital Scholar as a Role Player 1.6 Evolving as a Digital Scholar 1.7 How to understand and use the Digital Scholar framework References 2 The Digital Scholar as Author : Choices in disseminating scholarly work 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Academic authorship and its relation to the disciplinary field and online 2.1.1 The impact of field, capital and habitus on digital scholarship 2.1.2 Academic identity in a digitised world 2.3 Approaches in conveying scientific ideas to the broader community 2.3.1 Journal Publishing 2.3.2 Critical engagement with your scholarly impact (Self, Team, Society, Global) Many people have contributed with ideas, advice, comments, suggestions and support, before and during the development of this book: The organisers of the ADA African Doctoral Academy at Stellenbosch University, and the VLIR-UOS who financed the AVLM training, for giving us the opportunity during several consecutive years to build up our knowledge in this domain and to experiment with our Digital Scholar framework. The participants of our workshops, both ADA and AVLM, for listening to us, for being so active in the sessions (and later), for providing us with feedback and for helping us further to shape our training materials and activities. The leadership of our universities, for granting us space and time to engage in workshops and trainings as part of our academic work, and for supporting international exchange, which the collaboration between the authors stems from. The colleagues, in our own universities and many others, for inspiring us with their stories, for sharing their insights, for being guest lecturers in our workshops, for discussing preliminary versions of the contents of this book, for challenging us with their questions, and for helping us in developing learning materials. A special thank you to Lucille Müller, Multimedia Designer at the Centre for Learning Technologies, Stellenbosch University, for her graphic design work in this book. The peer reviewers, Michael Rowe and Dick Ng'ambi, for being our critical friends, for commenting on the first draft of our manuscript and for suggesting additions, deletions or changes in the text, always in a very constructive way. The publisher Leuven University Press, and especially our editor, Mirjam Truwant, for believing in our project, for offering professional help throughout the whole writing process, and for continuing to stimulate us and meet all requirements to make this book project happen.In this chapter we focus on A description of digital technologies and how they shaped the digital world of today in general. The need to develop digital competences for everyone and especially for scholars. Different existing frameworks to name, define and structure needed digital competences. The development of a three-dimensional Digital Scholar Framework that...
What does it take to become a digitally agile scholar? This manual explains how academics can comfortably navigate the digital world of today and tomorrow. It foregrounds three key domains of digital agility: getting involved in research, education and (community) service, mobilising (digital) skills on various levels, and acting in multiple roles, both individually and interlinked with others. After an introduction that outlines the foundations of the three-dimensional framework, the chapters focus on different roles and skills associated with evolving as a digital scholar. There is the author, who writes highly specialised texts for expert peers; the storyteller, who crafts accessible narratives to a broader audience in the form of blogs or podcasts; the creator, who uses graphics, audio, and video to motivate audiences to delve deeper into the material; the integrator, who develops and curates multimedia artefacts, disseminating them through channels such as websites, webinars, and open source repositories; and finally the networker, who actively triggers interaction via social media applications and online learning communities. Additionally, the final chapters offer a blueprint for the future digital scholar as a professional learner and as a “change agent” who is open to and actively pursues innovation. Informed by the authors’ broad and diverse personal experience, Evolving as a digital scholar offers insight, inspiration, and practical advice. It equips a broad readership with the skills and the mindset to harness new digital developments and navigate the ever-evolving digital age. It will inspire academic teachers and researchers with different backgrounds and levels of knowledge that wish to enhance their digital academic profile.
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