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Open Access to Research Is Inevitable, Libraries Are Told - Wired Campus - The Chronicl... - 0 views

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openaccess research faculty

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  • Bernard Schutz, director of the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, in Potsdam, Germany, stressed how far the United States lags behind Europe and other parts of the world on the open-access frontier.
  • "I now believe that having public access to most scholarly communications is inevitable," said David Shulenburger, vice president for academic affairs at the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities. "Faculty are coming to understand, finally, that this has to happen if they're going to have the most scholarly opportunities to get things done."
  • The "killer app" of open access, Mr. Schutz said, would be something that gave researchers the means to dig past metadata and do full-text searches. "I want really useful tools that understand context to retrieve text intelligently, hunt down key equations, ensure completeness of bibliographies, help assess the real impact of a scientist's work," he said.
  • Barbara Lindsey on 21 Feb 10
     
    ""I now believe that having public access to most scholarly communications is inevitable," said David Shulenburger, vice president for academic affairs at the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities. "Faculty are coming to understand, finally, that this has to happen if they're going to have the most scholarly opportunities to get things done.""
Barbara Lindsey

IBM Addresses Web 2.0 Security Concerns With 'SMash' - 0 views

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  • "Web 2.0 is fundamentally about empowering people, and has created a societal shift in the way we organize, access, and use information," said Rod Smith, IBM Fellow and vice president.
  • SMash addresses a part of the browser mashup security issue by keeping code and data from each of the sources separated, while allowing controlled sharing of the data through a secure communication channel.
Barbara Lindsey

CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive - Presidential ... - 0 views

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twitter tweets president U.S. records

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  • Barbara Lindsey on 18 Feb 10
     
    White House Tweets now part of presidential records
Barbara Lindsey

The University of Wherever - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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nytimes oped Stanford open access opened mooc

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  • Thrun, a German-born and largely self-taught expert in robotics, is famous for leading the team that built Google’s self-driving car. He is offering his “Introduction to Artificial Intelligence” course online and free of charge. His remote students will get the same lectures as students paying $50,000 a year, the same assignments, the same exams and, if they pass, a “statement of accomplishment” (though not Stanford credit). When The Times wrote about this last month, 58,000 students had signed up for the course. After the article, enrollment leapt to 130,000, from across the globe.
  • Thrun’s ultimate mission is a virtual university in which the best professors broadcast their lectures to tens of thousands of students. Testing, peer interaction and grading would happen online; a cadre of teaching assistants would provide some human supervision; and the price would be within reach of almost anyone. “Literally, we can probably get the same quality of education I teach in class for about 1 to 2 percent of the cost,” Thrun told me.
    • Barbara Lindsey
      Barbara Lindsey on 03 Oct 11
       
      Your thoughts?
  • Thrun believes there are technological answers to all of these questions, some of them being worked out already by other online frontiersmen.
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  • “If we can solve this,” he said, “I think it will disrupt all of higher education.”
  • John Hennessy, Stanford’s president, gave the university’s blessing to Thrun’s experiment, which he calls “an initial demonstration,” but he is cautious about the grander dream of a digitized university. He can imagine a virtual campus for some specialized programs and continuing education, and thinks the power of distributed learning can be incorporated in undergraduate education — for example, supplanting the large lecture that is often filled with students paying more attention to their laptops. He endorses online teaching as a way to educate students, in the developing world or our own, who cannot hope for the full campus experience.
  • As The Times’s Matt Richtel recently reported, there is remarkably little data showing that technology-centric schooling improves basic learning. It is quite possible that the infatuation with technology has diverted money from things known to work — training better teachers, giving kids more time in school.
  • “When is the infrastructure of the university particularly valuable — as it is, I believe, for an undergraduate residential experience — and when is it secondary to the learning process?”
  • Barbara Lindsey on 03 Oct 11
     
    Op ed piece on Stanford's free AI course and the impact of open, online education on the traditional academy. Should have mentioned Siemens, Downes & Couros MOOCs.
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