3:45 PM

Whether you celebrate the wisdom of crowds or bemoan the cult of the amateur, it.s clear the emerging web has serious implications for the way we share ideas. The emerging web.s potential to foster new forms of knowledge creation strikes at the heart of the scholarly enterprise. When scholars can create their own journals, encyclopedias, and (un)conferences, the processes of traditional scholarly communication begin to seem unnecessarily opaque. Consider how we can teach our students to evaluate and use scholarly information on the emerging web, and how to communicate the value of peer review to students.

Resources:
Handout (.pdf)