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Digital Scholarship and the Tenure Process as an Indicator of Change in Universities
La producción académica digital y el proceso de obtención de la titularidad académica como indicador del cambio en las universidades
International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education volume 9, pages 347–360 (2012)
Abstract
In this paper, the author aims to demonstrate that a practical barometer of how universities are dealing with the changes wrought by a digital, networked world can be found in the manner in which their reward and tenure processes recognise digital scholarship. The use of new technologies by academics to perform research, construct knowledge, disseminate ideas, engage students in learning and conduct a wide range of scholarly activities generates a number of issues for established reward and tenure systems, which can be seen as a representative microcosm of the issues facing universities more generally.
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Con este artículo el autor quiere demostrar que el reconocimiento a la producción académica digital en los procesos de recompensa y titularidad académica es un barómetro útil para saber cómo las universidades abordan los cambios introducidos por el mundo digital y en red. El uso de las nuevas tecnologías en la investigación, en la construcción de conocimiento, en la difusión de las ideas, en los procesos para que el alumnado participe en el aprendizaje y en una amplia gama de actividades académicas da lugar a una serie de problemas para los sistemas de recompensa y titularidad académica establecidos, que pueden entenderse como un microcosmos representativo de los problemas a los que deben enfrentarse las universidades desde un punto de vista más general.
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Weller, M. Digital Scholarship and the Tenure Process as an Indicator of Change in Universities. Int J Educ Technol High Educ 9, 347–360 (2012). https://doi.org/10.7238/rusc.v9i2.1398
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