Beyond Text: The Challenge of Multimedia Scholarly Discourse

In recent years, much has been written about the application of contemporary information and communication technologies (ICT) to teaching and learning. Despite the fact that teaching and learning, at least in higher education, ultimately rest on scholarship, researchers have paid less attention to the implications of new technologies for the conduct of scholarly discourse. By scholarly discourse, I mean the exchange of ideas and arguments—traditionally published in peer-reviewed journals and monographs—through which the knowledge base of any discipline is advanced.