This is a blog post about the educational value of academic publishing, and the role of textbooks and the educational resources we develop where a real contribution to knowledge and wider value in education is most certainly felt, not just through journal articles. Here in this blog post I share part of my experience and the view that “writing of good textbooks should be central – not marginal to our HE mission as researchers and teachers”.
Category Archives: Books
The Mechanics of Social Web Expertise: What Really is an Expert?
June 15, 2009 – 4:52 am
This post provides a discussion about expertise in the digital economy. Grounded in the fields of psychology and technology, knowledge is discussed in terms of the types of knowledge, scope of knowledge and acquisition and application of knowledge to help differentiate a novice from an expert with digital technologies. We are all not social web expertise, just like we are all not chefs or car mechanics.
