New Scholarship Initiative
How are the processes and products of scholarship changing? What does this mean for the academy?
This initiative, the NMC's newest, focuses on understanding the ways the practice of scholarship is changing, and on highlighting new forms of scholarly production. Included are efforts aimed at identifying how to assess the contributions of emerging forms of scholarship, supporting experimentation with new methods of expression and ways of visualizing information, and stimulating awareness of the value of these forms. Activities under this umbrella to date have included face-to-face and online conferences, new alliances with other groups working in this space, and experimentation with dialog-rich approaches to writing that have produced six volumes of work as part of the MacArthur Series on Digital Media and Learning.
- Focus on: the ways scholarship is being done; define quality
- Stimulate: awareness of the value of these forms and what quality is
Convene
people around ideas
- 2007 NMC Directors' Meeting (Mar 2007)
- Trinity Regional Conference (Nov 2006)
- Poster Sessions on NMC Campus (July 2006)
Catalyze
dialog and new ideas
Build Community
engage people
- Alliances with library groups (SPARC, CNI)
- MacArthur Project on Digital Media and Learning authors group
Contribute
produce things
The content below is related to this initiative and comes from various places across the NMC web site. Items are listed in reverse chronological order.
New Scholarship Initiative
Digital Culture Books
Posted July 26th, 2008 by Alan Levine
A great resource with books fully online with many New Media related titles currently available.
NMC Virtual Learning Prize
Posted May 14th, 2008 by NMCThe NMC Virtual Learning Prize is a $100,000 competitive program of awards intended to create a collection of innovative open-source learning experiences that make use of the unique attributes of a virtual learning environment. As many as 20 NMC Virtual Learning Prizes will be awarded in 2008. (See Press Release )
Each of the US$5,000 awards will provide a cash incentive paid to the awardee of $500 as well as $4,500 in expert development assistance from the NMC Virtual Worlds team to create the learning experience. The range of in-world services available to awardees to actualize the proposed ideas includes professional building, scripting, design, animation, avatar design, and/or related services.
NMC Announces Howard Rheingold's Symposium Presentation in a New Model for Online Publication
Posted January 16th, 2008 by Alan LevineThe December 3-5 2007 NMC Symposium on the Evolution of Communication was designed to consider the way technology is not only changing the modes of communication, but even the whole notion of how we communicate and think about it. And in our continued effort to explore new means of hosting online conferences, this event took place entirely in the virtual world of Second Life.
We were very excited to offer a keynote presentation by Howard Rheingold on Co-Evolution of Technology, Media and Collective Action where he surveyed the big picture/long view of the way technologies, communication media, and collective action has co-evolved.
Critical Analysis of Literary Works Using Virtual Worlds
Posted January 16th, 2008 by Alan Levine
Presentation from the 2007 NMC Symposium on Evolution of Communication
When reading literary texts, students must make interpretive choices that often affect their understanding of the material. Objects and symbols used by the author aid not only in reading comprehension by the formation of mental models, but also provide new and interesting entry points for collaborative interpretation. This session will focus on how virtual worlds can be used to redefine the analysis of the interpretation of text in ways not possible through discussion or print.
Co-Evolution of Technology, Media and Collective Action
Posted January 16th, 2008 by Alan Levine
Keynote presentation from the 2007 NMC Symposium on Evolution of Communication
Not Since the Great Depression: The Post Katrina Documentary Impulse and New Media
Posted December 17th, 2007 by NMC
Assembling content for an online database project regarding hurricanes Katrina and Rita provides daily opportunities to assess personal and community losses throughout the Gulf Coast. It also puts one into contact with the vast array of documentation efforts flourishing along the coast, particularly New Orleans, which serves as this catastrophe’s “Ground Zero.” Each individual’s story constitutes one invaluable piece in the immense debris field stretching from Texas to Alabama. New Media drives the documentation of the tragedies and ongoing recoveries; similarly, New Media must assist in making these invaluable materials accessible to both web surfers and scholars.
2007 NMC Summer Conference Proceedings
Posted November 6th, 2007 by Rachel SmithThe NMC is pleased to announce the release of the first NMC Summer Conference Proceedings!
Call for Abstracts: Multimedia, Media Convergence, Digital Storytelling, Public Understanding of Science
Posted November 5th, 2007 by Alan LevineThe Journal of the Research Center for Educational Technology provides a multimedia forum for the advancement of scholarly work on the effects of technology on teaching and learning. This online journal seeks to provide unique avenues for the dissemination of knowledge within the allied fields of new media and educational technology consistent with new and emerging technology research, theory, application and best practices.
NMC Releases White Paper on the Evolution of Communication
Posted October 12th, 2007 by Rachel SmithThe New Media Consortium announced today the release of Social Networking, the “Third Place,” and the Evolution of Communication, a white paper that discusses the premise that technology not only mediates interactions, but is actually changing the nature of communication itself.
This release marks the first in a series of topical papers associated with the NMC’s Series of Virtual Symposia (formerly the Series of Online Conferences), which are designed to explore emerging topics in education and technology using social computing technologies to bring people together online in a way that offers many of the same affordances of a face-to-face conference.
Social Networking, the "Third Place," and the Evolution of Communication
Posted October 10th, 2007 by Rachel SmithSocial Networking, the "Third Place," and the Evolution of Communication
This white paper is being released in a variety of forms as part of the NMC's New Scholarship Initiative.
Download the white paper in PDF (78k) -- but please also contribute to the paper and add to the conversation around it by commenting on it here. The paper is presented below in sections so that context-specific comments can be added or try the new CommentPress version that allows comments to be added to each paragraph. Please add your thoughts!
