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Using social media in university research and teaching
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What’s in a name? Academic identity in the metadata age

What’s in a name? Academic identity in the metadata age | Social media and higher education | Scoop.it
Professional identity is everything in academia, so Melissa Terras was shocked to discover the Internet had suddenly made her a specialist in Tarot Symbolism. Google Scholar and other online resour...
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How to use Harzing’s ‘Publish or Perish’ software to assess citations – a step-by-step guide

How to use Harzing’s ‘Publish or Perish’ software to assess citations – a step-by-step guide | Social media and higher education | Scoop.it
In his recent blog post on the need for a digital census of  academic research, Patrick Dunleavy argued that the ‘Publish or Perish’ software, developed by Professor Anne-Wil Harzing of Melbourne U...
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Using Social Media for Student Learning

Using Social Media for Student Learning | Social media and higher education | Scoop.it
Being able to maximize college students’ use of social media toward learning is going to be a skill higher education professionals will need to master in order to effectively engage our stude...
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How today’s higher education faculty use social media infographic | Social Media in Higher Education

How today’s higher education faculty use social media infographic | Social Media in Higher Education | Social media and higher education | Scoop.it
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Bamboo DiRT - collection registry of digital research tools for scholarly use

Great well organised collection:

 

"Bamboo DiRT is a tool, service, and collection registry of digital research tools for scholarly use. Developed by Project Bamboo, Bamboo DiRT makes it easy for digital humanists and others conducting digital research to find and compare resources ranging from content management systems to music OCR, statistical analysis packages to mindmapping software."


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31 Ways Universities Are Using Google+ To Communicate With Students

31 Ways Universities Are Using Google+ To Communicate With Students | Social media and higher education | Scoop.it
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Social media: A guide for researchers | Research Information Network

Social media: A guide for researchers | Research Information Network | Social media and higher education | Scoop.it
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Social Media in Higher Education: A Literature Review and Research Directions

Social media [technology] has become a growing phenomenon with many and varied definitions in public and academic use.

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Google Scholar Citations is now open to everyone. It shows great promise as a free, reliable way to track and compare academic impact over time.

Google Scholar Citations is now open to everyone. It shows great promise as a free, reliable way to track and compare academic impact over time. | Social media and higher education | Scoop.it
Google is once again making progress in organising the world’s information, this time by systematising the way scholarly citations are noted. Professor Patrick Dunleavy creates his Google Scholar p...
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How to manage a research library with Zotero

Keeping up to date with research and managing an ever-increasing number of journal articles is skill that must be well-honed by academics. Here, Alex Hope sets out how his workflow has developed us...
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The Value of Networks for Faculty Members

Alec Couros explains some of the strategies that seems to bear fruit when it comes to the adoption of technology for faculty members. He also touches on how ...
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Researchers and New Technology : The Digital Scholar: How Technology Is Transforming Scholarly Practice

"There have been a number of recent studies examining researchers’ use of new technologies, and the conclusion one can draw from these is of cautious experimentation. Perhaps, more than any other of the scholarly functions, the use of new technology in research is the most conservative, maybe because research is the practice still most highly valued. This chapter will look at some of the current evaluation research and then look at some of the potential uses..."


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How do I know that all of this was real? : The dark side of being a digital stranger in an online learning environment – Part 1 | Peter Bryant

How do I know that all of this was real? : The dark side of being a digital stranger in an online learning environment – Part 1 | Peter Bryant | Social media and higher education | Scoop.it
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Twitter Users Often Retweet Without Reading Or Clicking Links, Study Reveals [INFOGRAPHIC] - AllTwitter

Twitter Users Often Retweet Without Reading Or Clicking Links, Study Reveals [INFOGRAPHIC] - AllTwitter | Social media and higher education | Scoop.it
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Social Media Use in Higher Education: Key Areas to Consider for Educators

Social Media Use in Higher Education: Key Areas to Consider for Educators, Journal of Online Learning and Teaching


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Social Media and the Research Circle

Christopher Long, Professor of Philosophy and Classics and Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies in the College of the Liberal Arts at Penn State, outlines the…...
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