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Digital humanities pedagogy : practices, principles and politics
Academic institutions are starting to recognize the growing public interest in digital humanities research, and there is an increasing demand from students for formal training in its methods. Despite the pressure on practitioners to develop innovative courses, scholarship in this area has tended to focus on research methods, theories and results rather than critical pedagogy and the actual prac…
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- 9782821854031
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- xix, 426p. : ill.
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- 001.30711 DIG d
The state of open data : histories and horizons
It’s been ten years since open data first broke onto the global stage. Over the past decade, thousands of programmes and projects around the world have worked to open data and use it to address a myriad of social and economic challenges. Meanwhile, issues related to data rights and privacy have moved to the centre of public and political discourse. As the open data movement enters a new phase…
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- 9781928331957
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- xiii, 574p. : ill.
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- 070.57973 STA s
The social dynamics of open data
The Social Dynamics of Open Data is a collection of peer reviewed papers presented at the 2nd Open Data Research Symposium (ODRS) held in Madrid, Spain, on 5 October 2016. Research is critical to developing a more rigorous and fine-combed analysis not only of why open data is valuable, but how it is valuable and under what specific conditions. The objective of the Open Data Research Symposium a…
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- 9781928331568
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- viii, 200p. : ill.
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- 352.88 SOC s
Sharing knowledge, transforming societies : the Norhed Programme 2013-2020
"In June 2016, the Norwegian Programme for Capacity Development in Higher Education and Research for Development (Norhed) hosted a conference on the theme of ‘knowledge for development’ in an attempt to shift the focus of the programme towards its academic content. This book follows up on that event. The conference highlighted the usefulness of presenting the value of Norhed’s different p…
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- 9781928502005
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- xxxix, 570p. : ill.
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- 378.6 SHA s
Science communication in South Africa : reflections on current issues
"Why do we need to communicate science? Is science, with its highly specialised language and its arcane methods, too distant to be understood by the public? Is it really possible for citizens to participate meaningfully in scientific research projects and debate? Should scientists be mandated to engage with the public to facilitate better understanding of science? How can they best communicate …
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- 9781928502050
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- iv, 231p. : ill.
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- 001.4028558 SCI s
Open data in developing economies : toward building an evidence base on what …
Recent years have witnessed considerable speculation about the potential of open data to bring about wide-scale transformation. The bulk of existing evidence about the impact of open data, however, focuses on high-income countries. Much less is known about open data’s role and value in low- and middle-income countries, and more generally about its possible contributions to economic and social…
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- 9781928331599
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- v, 275p. : ill.
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- 352.38091724 VER o
North-South knowledge networks : towards equitable collaboration between acad…
Since the 1990s, internationalisation has become key for institutions wishing to secure funding for higher education and research. For the academic community, this strategic shift has had many consequences. Priorities have changed and been influenced by new ways of thinking about universities, and of measuring their impact in relation to each other and to their social goals. Debates are ongoing…
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- 9781928331308
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- xv, 310p. : ill.
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- 378 NOR n
Knowledge for a sustainable world : a Southern African-Nordic contribution
The search for answers to the issue of global sustainability has become increasingly urgent. In the context of higher education, many universities and academics are seeking new insights that can shift our dependence on ways of living that rely on the exploitation of so many and the degradation of so much of our planet. This is the vision that drives SANORD and many of the researchers and instit…
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- 9781928331049
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- xi, 244p. : ill.
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- 338.96807 KNO k
The future of scholarly publishing : open access and the economics of digitis…
The formal scientific communication system is currently undergoing significant change. This is due to four developments: the digitisation of formal science communication; the economisation of academic publishing as profit drives many academic publishers and other providers of information; an increase in the self-observation of science by means of publication, citation and utility-based indicato…
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- 9781928331537
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- ix, 277p. : ill.
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- 070.57973 FUT f
Going to university : the influence of higher education on the lives of young…
Around the world, more young people than ever before are attending university. Student numbers in South Africa have doubled since democracy and for many families, higher education is a route to a better future for their children. But alongside the overwhelming demand for higher education, questions about its purposes have intensified. Deliberations about the curriculum, culture and costing of p…
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- 9781928331698
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- ix, 164p. : ill.
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- 378.68 GOI g
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