Miquel Duran discusses the importance of scientific communication 2.0 in doctoral education and e-supervision. He notes that as a local PhD e-supervisor and teacher involved in online education, technology should be transparent and the future involves mobile and video. E-supervision can provide real supervision if the PhD student and supervisor have the right attitude. The supervision process involves skills like open research, digital communication, and curation. For PhD students, reputation and new publishing spaces are important, and education is life itself.

1. Doctoral Education and e-supervision
Session: From theory to practice: models, experiences,
opportunities and challenges of e-supervision
Barcelona, 31 October 2013
On the importance of Scientific
Communication 2.0 in the Ph.D.
pathway to the futue
Miquel DURAN, University of Girona
@miquelduran http://miquelduran.net

2. I’m kind of…
• A local Ph.D. e-supervisor with a few graduate
students
• A teacher being involved in efficient online
teaching (e.g. MOOCs)
• Someone involved in various areas of expertise
and responsibility that may be managed through
e-procedures (e.g., UdG’s webstite and social
networks). Working on University of Girona 2.0.

3. On the importance of Communication
2.0 in the Ph.D. process…
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Open Knowledge/Science (Africa: Open Access!)
Subject-dependent
PhD MOOCization
e-[something else][emphatic]-supervision
Technology should be transparent enough
Future is mobile, future is video
Age-dependency (andother dependencies)
Virtualization of supervision is real supervision
• My experience with locally e-supervised students:
Ph.D. students 2.0

4. Supervision means…
• Supervisor 2.0
• Supervisor having some empahty on supervised
• Ph.D. Student understanding the new role as
researcher in formation
• Ph.D. Student must contribute to local environment:
dissemination, Public Engagement in Science, etc.
• There should be a contract/commintment between
both parties. Likely reward system.
• Your attitude (ph.d. student, supervisor, policy
maker, administrator…) is a choice.

5. Supervision Process…
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Open reseracher
Crowdfunding
Citizen science
Good referencing and Curation
E-preparation of communication papers, talks…
skills
• Digital, communication, language… skills
• Barriers erected by pre-digital reputation and
reward systems

6. And what about the Supervisee?
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This is me and my digital circumstances
Reputation
New spaces to publish, to assess
Ph.D. student 2.0: it’s rather an attitude
Education is not a preparation for life, it is life
itself
Responsible research and innovation
Blended&hybrid supervision
Cosupervision
Supervisor should be 2.0 too

7. Some questions…
• Attitude; who proposes the project?
• Ph.d. future worker in research industry, university
staff, etc.
• Supervising means also providing best practices
• Ph.d. students are future ph.d. advisors
• Providing and enhancing values
• Assessment in science: thru refereed papers. In other
areas, more complicated probably.
• Mobile, video (from whastapp to twitter)
• Benefits both for ph.d. students and supervisor
• Full-time vs part-time (already employed) phd st
• It should be emotional too (despite cultural diffs) –
knowledge breakd barriers

8. Scientific Communication 2.0.1
• Doctoral course, on-the-spot:
– http://iscico.wikispaces.com
• MOOC, in Spanish (doc in English)
– https://www.miriadax.net/web/sociedad_digital
• Slideshare presentations:
– http://slideshare.net/ tag: ISciCo
• This provides some amount of info on e-supervision
• Use of simple, readily available, open/free resources

9. Scientific Communication 2.0.1
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This is me and my digital circumstances
Let’s communicate
Let’s collaborate
Let’s establish (alt)metrics and evaluate
Let’s disseminate, engage - outreach

10. Outcomes
• From MiriadaX’s MOOC students
– Skills
– Attitudes
– Sharing, collaborating, coordinating
• From our experience;
– A new way to teach
– Crossing the frontier
– Beyond limits, worldwide
– Pareto’s law: 20% participants provide 80%
work, participation, etc.