Crowdsourcing Academe: A Twittered Panel |
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| Event | Interactive 2011 |
| Format | Panel |
| Organizer | Virignia Kuhn – Institute for Multimedia Liteary, University of Southern California |
| Description | Social media and newer Information and Communication Technologies have begun to shape the slow-moving culture of higher education in vital ways. In seven days scholars from across the globe crowdsourced a 'book' submitting work via Twitter and blog posts. The project, titled Hacking the Academy, was begun Tom Scheinfeldt and Dan Cohen as a project of the Center for History and New Media, George Mason University. Although this project is not unprecedented--indeed in 2003 academics at the Computers and Writing Conference at Purdue assembled a digital book in an afternoon--but it is a remarkable both for its reach and its use of Web 2.0 tools designed for social networking as authors submitted from disparate geographic locales. Such projects beg pressing questions about the viability of the way that universities conduct the business of education and knowledge production in the 21st century. This panel will examine the ways in which digital technologies challenge disciplinary, professional and pedagogical boundaries. We have already crowdsourced participation in this panel by tweeting a call for interest through the Hacking the Academy hashtag and will include a simultaneous vibrant Twitter discussion which our remote international colleagues will facilitate. |
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| Level | Beginner |
| Category | Education |