Scholarship 2.0

January 12, 2008

For the last two days, I’ve been at NITLE’s Scholarly Collaboration and Small Colleges in the Digital Age conference.  It’s been a great conference so far.  Both Tim and Kathleen have been liveblogging the panels and have really good notes and commentary on each of those sessions.  Here are what I think are some key points so far:

• Scholarship needs to change
• Promotion and tenure requirements often get in the way of pursuing new forms of scholarship
• Many issues about publishing digitally have yet to be worked out
• There are lots of interesting projects being pursued, often out of sheer devotion to a topic
• It’s difficult to get faculty to participate in projects, and to weigh in on the issues

I’m looking forward to a few more good sessions today.

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