NMC Conversations #5
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Continuing from Conversation #4, we again cover the Horizon Project theme by talking with Bryan Alexander on the 2007 Horizon Report horizon of New Scholarship.
As Director of Research for NITLE (National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education), Bryan researches and develops programs on the advanced uses of information technology in liberal arts contexts. His interests “concern mobile and wireless computing, digital gaming, and social software. Other interests include digital writing, copyright and intellectual property, information literacy, project management, information design, and interdisciplinary collaboration”. In addition to publishing on NITLE blog’s Liberal Education Today, he posts frequently to his own blog, Infocult: Information, Culture, Policy, Education, travels incessantly for workshops and invited presentations, and publishes his work in places such as EDUCAUSE Review.
Based on discussions we have had with Bryan about connecting NMC and NITLE , and his active participation in our Future of Scholarship Track at the NMC 2006 Regional Conference, we were excited to connect with him for a conversation about one of NMC’s focus initiatives- New Scholarship.
While we started with some talk about the relationship of blogging and scholarship, we arched more broadly to areas of academic practices, publishing, innovation theory, and affordances of powerful tools such as visualization. We might have gone for hours if someone was not watching the clock.
For reference, resources mentioned include:
- NITLE http://www.nitle.org/
- NITLE blog Liberal Education Today http://b2e.nitle.org/
- Infocult: Information, Culture, Policy, Education
http://infocult.typepad.com/ - Horizon Project http://horizon.nmc.org/
- NMC New Scholarship Initiative
http://www.nmc.org/horizonproject/2007/new-scholarship - Echo Chamber
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echo_chamber#As_a_metaphor - Valdis Krebs – Political Books and Polarized Readers
http://www.orgnet.com/divided.html - Write Articles, Not Blog Postings (Kajob Nielsen)
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/articles-not-blogs.html - Bryan’s Dracublog http://infocult.typepad.com/dracula/
- Pulse: The Coming of Systems and Machines Inspired by Living Things by Robert Renay
http://www.pulsethebook.com/
http://www.pulsethebook.com/about/what-the-book-is-about/ - Visualizing Population Data- Gapminder http://www.gapminder.org/
- Everett M. Rogers- Diffusion of Innovations
http://www.amazon.com/Diffusion-Innovations-5th-Everett-Rogers/dp/0743222091 - H-Net http://www.h-net.org/
- Connecticut College K-HHMI Visiting Fellows
http://k-hhmi.conncoll.edu/k-hhmi-fellows.html - Ithaka: University Publishing in a Digital Age
http://www.ithaka.org/strategic-services/university-publishing
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