Humanities Intensive Learning + Teaching, Day 5, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, #hilt2014

Cuando las redes sociales y niestro trabajo en ellas, suele ser en un principio «débiles» es nuestra función hacerlas fuertes…juandon

Nick Falkner

Sorry for the delay in completing this – it has been crazy and I prefer to write directly into the live blog, which means a network feed, as I just find it easier to put things together this way. (It’s only been a week (ish) anyway.)

Today (well, then), we looked at modularity  and how we could break networks into separate communities. This is important because it helps us to be able to see structure. The human eye is a great tool but it often needs help and modularity is a good way to do this. We have strong ties between components in directed networks (unidirectional) because we have taken the time to say that the link goes this way. We have weak ties in undirected networks because there is no solidity to the association form one side to the other. The more connected something is, the more strongly tied it…

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Why Can Knowledge Mobilization (KMb) Make A Difference For Universities?

KMbeing

University faculty have long considered tenure to be their right – something they deserve as dedicated researchers and hardworking teaching professionals. And a new generation of graduate students are finding it not so easy to get on the “tenure-track” due to greater competition and sometimes misguided expectations of success post-graduation. There are many challenges to the contemporary academy as shown by the recent example at the University of Saskatchewan, and the many challenges within the past few decades that have created financial struggles for universities requiring evidence-based reform – such as the Research Excellence Framework (REF) in the UK, or in Canada, the Program Prioritization Process (PPP) or Academic and Administrative Program Review (AAPR)and U of Sask’s TransformUS. These recent academic/economic checks are informed by the Dickeson prioritization process started in the United States more than a decade ago based on the methodology of Robert Dickeson’s Prioritizing…

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Divulgación de la innovación educativa: como dar visibilidad a su trabajo.

Innovación Educativa

Estamos habituados, sobre todo el profesorado, a publicar en revistas (si son de impacto mejor). Este proceso suele llevar entre uno y dos años desde que se ha escrito lo realizado en la experiencia (hay que redactarlo de forma empírica, un plazo para la presentación, un plazo para la revisión y un plazo para la publicación). El objetivo de publicar es que la comunidad científica, en este caso el profesorado, conozca conocimiento útil para aplicarlo. En definitiva se divulga para mejorar la propia innovación educativa.

Esto es un contrasentido, ya que el impacto real de una publicación en una revista es muy limitado, debido principalmente al retraso en salir la publicación y al acceso restringido a muchas de ellas. Sin embargo, hay otras formas de divulgar su trabajo, incluso desde antes de comenzarlo. Veamos algunas formas:

La clasificación está tomada de Francisco José García Peñalvo (del grupo de investigación GRIAL).

Dónde…

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