The Changing Face of Scholarly Authority in context to Higher Education: An Overview

The rapid growth of globalization and evolution of Information and communication Technologies (ICTs) have brought significant changes, challenges in context to higher education. Thus in this changing context, to improve opportunities in teaching, learning, and research, we should measure the implications of e-learning tools to establish scholarly authority, significant and scholarly validity for lifelong educational need of citizens in this knowledge driven economy society. By virtue of that the scholars will cope up with the changing environment of globalization in education, and improve their behavioral skills, intelligence and learning habits as well. The present paper highlights the key issues concerned to higher education with emphasizing on the changing face of scholarship. The authors have also presented a brief outline of various scholarly metrics employed and used to enhance the values of scholarship and scholarly communication process