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Ivan Beeckmans

Digital literacy can boost employability and improve student experience | Higher Educat... - 0 views

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shared by Ivan Beeckmans on 14 Feb 12 - No Cached
  • increasingly digital literacy is vital for learning itself.
  • It goes beyond IT skills, a complete culture change is required to live fully within the modern digital society, from understanding how to communicate ideas effectively in a range of media to managing digital reputation and history.
  • it's easy to overstate the digital competence of today's undergraduate students and even postgraduate researchers.
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  • Most learners use only basic functionality and are reluctant to explore the capabilities of technology, preferring to passively consume content rather than create or curate it.
Ivan Beeckmans

The disappearing virtual library - Opinion - Al Jazeera English - 0 views

www.aljazeera.com/...2012227143813304790.html

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shared by Ivan Beeckmans on 05 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • But both are missing the point: the global demand for learning and scholarship is not being met by the contemporary publishing industry. It cannot be, not with the current business models and the prices. The users of library.nu - these barbarians at the gate of the publishing industry and the university - are legion.
  • They are a global market engaged in what we in the elite institutions of the world are otherwise telling them to do all the time: educate yourself; become scholars and thinkers; read and think for yourselves; bring civilisation, development and modernity to your people.
  • Library.nu was making that learning possible where publishers have not
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  • But the legality of library.nu is also not the issue: trading in scanned, leaked or even properly purchased versions of digital books is thoroughly illegal. This is so much the case that it can't be long before reading a book - making an unauthorised copy in your brain - is also made illegal. 
  • not stealing
  • The winter of 2012 has seen a series of assaults on file-sharing sites in the wake of the failed SOPA and PIPA legislation. Mega-upload.com (the brainchild of eccentric master pirate Kim Dotcom - he legally changed his name in 2005) was seized by the US Department of Justice; torrent site btjunkie.com voluntarily closed down for fear of litigation.
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     Last week a website called "library.nu" disappeared. A coalition of international scholarly publishers accused the site of piracy and convinced a judge in Munich to shut it down. Library.nu (formerly Gigapedia) had offered, if the reports are to be believed, between 400,000 and a million digital books for free. 
Chrissy Hellyer

Why You Should Care About and Defend Your Privacy - 0 views

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shared by Chrissy Hellyer on 11 Apr 14 - No Cached
  • Privacy is dead, right? Facebook knows everything about you, and the world is still turning.
  • Making the case that information about you, your demographics, your behaviors and habits—all information you may think has little to no value—is valuable to the people looking for it is one important step in explaining why this is all important.
  • The fact is, your data is worth real, tangible money to the companies that offer you free services (in Facebook's case, you're worth just shy of $5 per year) and the companies they do business with, even if they're not asking you to open your wallet.P
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  • what data is requested of them, how much of the requested information is required for the service they want to use, and how their data is eventually used. The survey notes that even young people are concerned about their privacy, the ones often written off as part of a generation that's willing to share everything online.
  • people are still quite concerned with their privacy. The baseline for privacy has simply changed.
  • Rainey says that even those who dismiss privacy concerns become concerned when confronted with the depth of information they've revealed, and when shown how that information is used once they give it up.
  • "They just want control over what information they give up,
  • what they agree to, and what information is made public versus kept private in the databases and annals of the companies and organizations that get to see it."
Ivan Beeckmans

Welcome to the new world of student-centred education - The Nation - 1 views

www.nationmultimedia.com/...t-centred-educat-30170498.html

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shared by Ivan Beeckmans on 24 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • The path towards student-centred learning is not difficult - but neither is it easy. It is not difficult because all the tools, knowledge and skills required are already available. It is not easy because it requires a significant change in the current mindset.
  • John Holt tells us that children love to learn but hate to be taught.
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