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Scholarly, digital, open: an impossible triangle?

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dc.creator Robin Goodfellow
dc.date 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned 2015-07-20T22:34:55Z
dc.date.available 2015-07-20T22:34:55Z
dc.identifier 2156-7069
dc.identifier 2156-7077
dc.identifier 10.3402/rlt.v21.21366
dc.identifier https://doaj.org/article/aa5c0da065734f62a4f381e54e816220
dc.identifier.uri http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/22844
dc.description Contemporary approaches to the digital transformation of practice in university research and teaching sometimes assume a convergence between the digital and openness. This assumption has led to the idea of ‘digital open scholarship,’ which aims to open up scholarship to participants from outside academic scholarly communities. But scholarship, digitality and openness exist in tension with each other – we can see the individual features of each, but we cannot make sense of the whole picture. It resembles an ‘impossible triangle’. Particularly confounding is the tension between digital scholarship and open knowledge, where the former is focused on the creation by specialist communities of knowledge of a stable and enduring kind, whilst the latter is characterised by encyclopaedic knowledge and participation that is unbounded by affiliation or location. However, we need not be permanently thwarted by the apparent impossibility of this triangle. It is a stimulus to look critically at the contexts of practice in which a relationship between scholarship, digitality and openness is sought. Constructive examples of such critique can be found in the emerging research field of literacy and knowledge practice in the digital university.
dc.language English
dc.publisher Co-Action Publishing
dc.relation http://www.researchinlearningtechnology.net/index.php/rlt/article/download/21366/pdf_1
dc.relation https://doaj.org/toc/2156-7069
dc.relation https://doaj.org/toc/2156-7077
dc.rights CC BY
dc.source Research in Learning Technology, Vol 21, Iss 0, Pp 1-15 (2014)
dc.subject open scholarship
dc.subject digital scholarship
dc.subject research
dc.subject public engagement
dc.subject literacy
dc.subject digital university
dc.subject Education (General)
dc.subject L7-991
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject DOAJ:Education
dc.subject DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject Education (General)
dc.subject L7-991
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject Education (General)
dc.subject L7-991
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject Education (General)
dc.subject L7-991
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.title Scholarly, digital, open: an impossible triangle?
dc.type article


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