… redefines the relationship between research and teaching
All good scholarship is attentive to the need for a meaningful relationship between research and teaching. However, through its commitment to openness, innovation, and leveraging the affordances of networked information technologies, digital scholarship promises to redefine this relationship in a number of important ways.
The rise of OER-enabled pedagogy provides an excellent example of this trend, particularly insofar as it recasts the role of students from passive consumers of information to active contributors to the scholarly record. This trend has been enabled by the growing prevalence of open licensing as means of maximizing information dissemination and combatting the excesses of the global intellectual property regime. Insofar as digital scholarship demands familiarity with open research practices and innovations in technical infrastructure, DS practitioners are ideally positioned to advance this new understanding of the relationship between research and teaching in the digital environment.