1. The Potential Impacts of Social Media on Social Research and Scholarly Communication Research Forum 2010 George Siemens April 27, 2010

2. “Everything is in play, as nearly every aspect of academic life is being driven by a host of inter- related developments: dazzling technological advances, globalization that permeates academic boundaries, rapid increase of tertiary students worldwide, expansion of proprietary higher education, a blurring of (the) public/private distinction, and entrepreneurial initiatives on and off campus.” (Schuster & Finkelstein, 2006)

3. “Scholarship in higher education in this century has to be irrevocably tied to the technology and knowledge media that constitute such important drivers in the society of which we are a part.” Gourley, 2008

4. Is peer review in decline? “the Internet improves the ability of high- profile authors to disseminate their research without going through the traditional peer- review process.” NBER/MIT

5. Data and conversational control shift

6. The medium alters the message

8. What a society does with information determines the types of institutions that are required. McNeely & Wolverton, 2008

15. Universities map reality Frank & Gabler (2006)

16. AU should be a leader in researching research

17. Where is our e-research profile?

18. Where should researchers be?

19. Your “findability” factor Gráinne Conole

20. Decentralized research labs & consortium

21. Everything is Explicit

22. The diminishing cost of data

23. Big data, Analytics, Data visualization

24. Abundance “will challenge decision-support processes which are based on ‘ordered’ knowledge” DCDC Global Strategic Trends

27. “a single scholarly field has helped illuminate all of them” http://harvardmagazine.com/2010/05/networked

28. Publication Open journals Open educational resources Discussion-oriented journals (PLoSOne) Networked teaching and learning

29. Openness fosters innovation http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/viewArticle/643/1402

31. https://tekri.athabascau.ca/dr_seminar/