scholarly journals Introducing Massively Open Online Papers (MOOPs)

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Jonathan P. Tennant ◽  
Natalia Bielczyk ◽  
Bastian Greshake Tzovaras ◽  
Paola Masuzzo ◽  
Tobias Steiner
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Environments ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
Research Articles ◽  
Participatory Process ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Open Process ◽  
Digital Collaboration ◽  
Collaborative Article

An enormous wealth of digital tools now exists for collaborating on scholarly research projects. In particular, it is now possible to collaboratively author research articles in an openly participatory and dynamic format. Here we describe and provide recommendations for a more open process of digital collaboration, and discuss the potential issues and pitfalls that come with managing large and diverse authoring communities. We summarize our personal experiences in a form of ‘ten simple recommendations’. Typically, these collaborative, online projects lead to the production of what we here introduce as Massively Open Online Papers (MOOPs). We consider a MOOP to be distinct from a ‘traditional’ collaborative article in that it is defined by an openly participatory process, not bound within the constraints of a predefined contributors list. This is a method of organised creativity designed for the efficient generation and capture of ideas in order to produce new knowledge. Given the diversity of potential authors and projects that can be brought into this process, we do not expect that these tips will address every possible project. Rather, these tips are based on our own experiences and will be useful when different groups and communities can uptake different elements into their own workflows. We believe that creating inclusive, interdisciplinary, and dynamic environments is ultimately good for science, providing a way to exchange knowledge and ideas as a community. We hope that these Recommendations will prove useful for others who might wish to explore this space.

scholarly journals Introducing Massively Open Online Papers (MOOPs)

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Tennant ◽  
Natalia Z Bielczyk ◽  
Bastian Greshake Tzovaras ◽  
Paola Masuzzo ◽  
Tobias Steiner
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Environments ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
Research Articles ◽  
Participatory Process ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Simple Rules ◽  
Open Process ◽  
Collaborative Article

An enormous wealth of digital tools now exists for collaborating on scholarly research projects. In particular, it is now possible to collaboratively author research articles in an openly participatory and dynamic format. Here we describe and provide recommendations for a more open process of collaboration, and discuss the potential issues and pitfalls that come with managing large and diverse authoring communities. We summarize our personal experiences in a form of ‘ten simple rules’. Typically, these collaborative, online projects lead to the production of what we here identify as Massively Open Online Papers (MOOPs). We consider a MOOP to be distinct from a ‘traditional’ collaborative article in that it is defined by an openly participatory process, not bound within the constraints of a predefined contributors list. This is a method of organised creativity designed for the efficient generation and capture of ideas in order to produce new knowledge. Given the diversity of potential authors and projects that can be brought into this process, we do not expect that these tips will address every possible project. Rather, these tips are based on our own experiences and will be useful when different groups and communities can uptake different elements into their own workflows. We believe that creating inclusive, interdisciplinary, and dynamic environments is ultimately good for science, providing a way to exchange knowledge and ideas as a community. We hope that these rules will prove useful for others who might wish to explore this space.

Grant Opportunities for Academic Liaison with Industry

1999 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-141 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.C. Roco ◽  
D. Senich
Keyword(s):  
National Science Foundation ◽  
High Gain ◽  
University Research ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
National Science ◽  
Educational Programmes ◽  
Basic Concepts ◽  
Research And Education ◽  
University Industry

Grant Opportunities for Academic Liaison with Industry (GOALI) is a National Science Foundation (NSF) initiative which covers a broad spectrum of university–industry interaction mechanisms, from faculty visits to industry and graduate student industrial assistantships to full scale industry–university research projects. The initiative promotes high-risk/high-gain research with focus on fundamental topics, which would not have been undertaken by industry. It also encourages development of innovative collaborative industry–university educational programmes, and direct deployment of new knowledge between academe and industry. This paper outlines the basic concepts of the initiative, characteristics of the funded research and education projects, and several trends. Illustrations of projects from engineering, manufacturing, environment and education are included.

scholarly journals In the Tracks of the Reindeer: The Emotional Effects of Digital Information on Raindeer Herders

2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 5-26
Author(s):  
Kajsa Kuoljok
Keyword(s):  
Digital Technology ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
Gps Data ◽  
Digital Information ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Grazing Area ◽  
Emotional Effects ◽  
Partial Relation ◽  
The Way

Through a story about a reindeer that wandered off from its grazing area, this article explores the emotional effects mediated by digital technology. It concerns the way in which reindeer movements are made visible through the use of digital tools. As reindeer movements are documented by GPS (Global Positional Systems) technology and transformed into inscriptions, the movements become easier to observe. It makes a difference when herders can follow reindeer movements from above, instead of from the ground. New knowledge emerges with increased amounts of information. As GPS data makes reindeer movement visible, it creates a new, partial relation between seeing and knowing. The strong emotional effects that are induced by this relation on the herder are observed and described through a narrative of the reindeer that wandered into another Sámi community.

scholarly journals SOCIAL MEDIA IN A CONTENT COURSE FOR THE DIGITAL NATIVES

2015 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 48
Author(s):  
Anita Lie
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Classroom Practices ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Digital Natives ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Educational Systems ◽  
Participatory Process ◽  
The Social ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
The Media

Digital technologies and the Internet have revolutionized the way people gather information and acquire new knowledge. With a click of a button or a touch on the screen, any person who is wired to the internet can access a wealth of information, ranging from books, poems, articles, graphics, animations and so much more. It is imperative that educational systems and classroom practices must change to serve our 21st century students better. This study examines the use of Edmodo as a social media to teach a course in Pedagogy to a class of digital natives. The media is used as an out-of-class communication forum to post/submit assignments and resources, discuss relevant issues, exchange information, and handle housekeeping purposes. A survey of students' responses and discussions on their participatory process leads to insights on how the social media helps achieve the required competences.

Engineering Design as Research

2012 ◽  
pp. 1766-1779
Author(s):  
Timothy L.J. Ferris
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Design Work ◽  
Engineering Research ◽  
Is Research ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Potential Applications ◽  
Actual Design ◽  
Physical Phenomena ◽  
The Impact

Research is defined as an activity that creates new knowledge. This is often misunderstood in the engineering community as necessarily requiring a scientific contribution that advances the theory of some matter related to engineering materials or processes. Consequently, typical engineering research projects investigate physical phenomena thought likely to be interesting in potential applications or to describe the characteristics of processes used in engineering work. The results of such projects provide a fragmented, abstracted view of the phenomena investigated, which is difficult to use in engineering decision making related to contextualised situations. This chapter shows how the actual design of engineered artefacts is research because it provides knowledge of the impact of the integration of various elements of existing knowledge, which demonstrates the properties of the designs achieved through the design work and leads to discovery of solutions to the various challenges of integration discovered through the project which attempts to achieve the integration.

scholarly journals Designing Collaborative Research: The Exploration of Common Purposes to Foster the Generation of Cross-Disciplinary Projects

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 2219-2228
Author(s):  
Juliette Brun ◽  
Chloé Salembier ◽  
Benjamin Loubet ◽  
Alexandra Jullien
Keyword(s):  
Design Process ◽  
Collaborative Research ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Innovative Design ◽  
Organizational Issues ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Increasing Demand ◽  
New Research ◽  
Innovation Processes

AbstractDespite the increasing demand to develop cross-disciplinary research projects, designing collaborative research still prove to be difficult due to both scientific specialization and organizational issues. In this paper, we explore how innovative design dynamics can be developed between researchers to collectively build research projects that could become common purposes for collaboration. This work relies on a case study led with the newly formed Eco&Phy research team, who applied an innovative design process to initiate collaboration and design its scientific agenda for the next 5 years. This process was built based on both KCP and matching-building methodologies: it included an initialization phase, during which the team strategically chose topics to be explored, and exploration phases, during which researchers collectively developed new knowledge and concepts to build cross-disciplinary projects. At the end of the design process, the team had developed two new research lines that were integrated in its official agenda. In conclusion, the article discusses the relevance of design approaches to develop original collaborative research through dedicated innovation processes.

scholarly journals Continual Lifelong Learning for Intelligent Agents

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ghada Sokar
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Intelligent Agents ◽  
Deep Neural Networks ◽  
Dynamic Environments ◽  
Training Data ◽  
Similar Distribution ◽  
Single Task ◽  
Learning Tasks ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Real World Applications

Deep neural networks have achieved outstanding performance in many machine learning tasks. However, this remarkable success is achieved in a closed and static environment where the model is trained using large training data of a single task and deployed for testing on data with a similar distribution. Once the model is deployed, it becomes fixed and inflexible to new knowledge. This contradicts real-world applications, in which agents interact with open and dynamic environments and deal with non-stationary data. This Ph.D. research aims to propose efficient approaches that can develop intelligent agents capable of accumulating new knowledge and adapting to new environments without forgetting the previously learned ones.

scholarly journals Beyond projects: benefits of research accompanying research: Reflections from the research programme Sustainable Land Management

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 294-304 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Weith ◽  
Sebastian Rogga ◽  
Jana Zscheischler ◽  
Nadin Gaasch
Keyword(s):  
Land Management ◽  
Research Programme ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Sustainable Land Management ◽  
Science And Policy ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Research Programmes ◽  
Working Together ◽  
New Research ◽  
Additional Value

In manifold ways science and practice are working together to find solutions for sustainable land management. New research programmes on this topic generate a large variety of single project results. Accompanying research projects will realize additional value by merging and synthesising the results from these projects and by supporting the generation of new knowledge for science and society.For many actors in science and policy, the additional value of research accompanying research projects remains open. Referring to a recent publication in GAIA that introduces a typology for accompanying research (AR), this article discusses the central issues, content, processes and ongoing challenges in an AR project accompanying the German research programme Sustainable Land Management. The important value of AR can be seen in communication, networking, the reflexive generation of new knowledge and knowledge management based on trust building and competence. AR also exhibits great potential for research on cross-cutting issues in research programmes and has special significance for meta-studies on different research projects taking place under similar funding conditions. However, additional analyses are necessary for a better understanding of the outcomes and impacts of AR and to create wider appreciation and acceptance.

Practice as Research

2016 ◽  
pp. 116-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stan Lester
Keyword(s):  
Research Projects ◽  
Methodological Consideration ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Type 3

This chapter highlights the potential for live pieces of work, rather than specifically designed research projects, to be used as the basis for the outputs of professionally-oriented doctorates. Drawing on some examples from a transdisciplinary ‘practitioner' doctorate in an English university, it discusses how work that is designed to result in change or development can, if approached with sufficient methodological consideration, provide an intellectually robust basis for developing new knowledge that not only has application in practice but can also be worthy of academic dissemination. A case is made for what is here termed ‘practice as research' being regarded as an archetypal model for the practitioner or ‘Type 3' doctorate.

Health for all through digital collaboration

Impact ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (6) ◽  
pp. 58-59
Author(s):  
Lucy Annette
Keyword(s):  
Digital Health ◽  
Personal Data ◽  
Health Data ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
World Health ◽  
Priority List ◽  
Research And Innovation ◽  
Health And Social Care ◽  
Digital Collaboration ◽  
The Impact

2020 was an eventful year, with the Brexit vote and the COVID-19 pandemic. With health professionals focused on the pandemic, treatments for other conditions have fallen from the priority list and many of the effects of the pandemic could be everlasting. The European Commission's Health and Food Safety Commissioner, Stella Kyriakides delivered a keynote speech to the World Health Summit 2020 in which she discussed how best to achieve health for all through digital collaboration. She acknowledged that the impact of the virus has further highlighted the importance of digital solutions and outlined the focus of her intervention which expanded across three key areas: 'how digital solutions enable better health outcomes; what the EU is doing; and what we can do to build global collaboration in this area'. She said that digital solutions are key to making effective use of data as they 'allow better use of health data in research and innovation, enabling stronger and more resilient health and social care systems'. Kyriakides also acknowledged the challenges that digital tools present in the form of privacy and personal data concerns. There are plans to create a common European Health Data Space (EHDS) to 'foster collaboration and to harness data for better healthcare, better research, and better evidence-based policy making for the benefit of patients'. Kyriakides said that digital tools have the potential to benefit countries across the globe and that the 'strategic and innovative use of digital health tools can make an important contribution to essential international objectives'.

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