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Heather Ross

What does the new tri-agency open access policy mean for researchers? | University Affairs - 0 views

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    "Canada's Tri-Agency of federal research funders is set to implement a harmonized, mandatory open access (OA) policy requiring that all federally funded, peer-reviewed journal publications be made freely accessible within 12 months of publication. Research funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada is subject to the policy, which takes effect on May 1st. Federally-funded researchers have three options to comply with the policy:"
Heather Ross

The Digital Native Debate in Higher Education: A Comparative Analysis of Rece... - 1 views

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    "More than a decade after Prensky's influential articulation of digital natives and immigrants, great disagreement exists around these characterizations of students and the impact of such notions within higher education. Perceptions of today's undergraduate learners as tech-savvy "digital natives" (Prensky, 2001a), who both want and need the latest emerging technologies in all learning situations, continue to dominate the discourse in education technology research and practice. Popular yet largely unsubstantiated conceptions of digital natives are often embedded within the assumptions of contemporary research on student perceptions of emerging technologies, seemingly without regard for a growing body of evidence questioning such notions. In order to promote critical discussion in the higher education community considering potential directions for further research of these issues, especially within the Canadian context, the purpose of this review of recent literature is to analyze key themes emerging from contemporary research on the Net generation as digital natives. "
Brad Wuetherick

The teaching-only stream | University Affairs - 1 views

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    An interesting article exploring the teaching-research nexus in higher education - ie. the interplay (or not) of teaching and research roles.
Brad Wuetherick

Making sense of methodologies: A paradigm framework for the novice researcher - 0 views

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    "Making sense of methodologies: A paradigm framework for the novice researcher" - Article introducing different methodologies for research on teaching and learning (and other social sciences)
Carolyn Hoessler

Recruiting Students for Research in Postsecondary Education: A Guide - 0 views

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    A guide regarding recruiting undergraduate students for research including for SoTL
Heather Ross

Digital Research Centre - College of Arts and Science . University of Saskatchewan - 0 views

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    "Whether you're a faculty member interested in using digital tools, a graduate student looking for innovative ways to communicate your research, or an undergraduate student who just wants to learn more, you're welcome to stop in to the DRC anytime. The DRC offers industry standard hardware and software, rooms for you, your class, or your research assistants, support for your project or grant application, and information about new media classes available at the U of S. One of the core principles of the digital humanities is collaboration, so come find out how we can work together to meet your goals. "
Brad Wuetherick

Taylor & Francis Online :: Curriculum mapping to embed graduate capabilities - Higher E... - 0 views

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    Brand new article that just came out in the Higher Education Research and Development journal. It features researchers from La Trobe University in Australia, but may be of interest to people at the U of S.
Heather Ross

Free reference manager and PDF organizer | Mendeley - 0 views

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    "Mendeley is a free reference manager and academic social network that can help you organize your research, collaborate with others online, and discover the latest research."
Heather Ross

Crisis in academic publishing - UdeMNouvelles - 0 views

  • In recent months, more than 11,000 researchers worldwide have expressed their dissatisfaction through a petition calling for a boycott of Elsevier. This academic publishing giant earned profits of more than US $1.1 billion in 2011.
  • He says a good model is the public subsidy of scholarly publishing. “Academic publishing costs about one percent of what is allocated to research,” Guédon noted. “All you need is to add this amount to research budgets to cover publication costs while ensuring independence from governments so they don't interfere with content. This already exists in Latin America with the Scientific Electronic Library Online, which includes 800 open access journals.”
  • Some figures to remember315%: the average price increase of subscriptions for universities between 1986 and 2003, while inflation was only 68% for the same period. US $1.1 billion: profits earned by the publisher Elsevier in 2011, a profit margin of around 35%. Between $7 and $8 million: the cost of electronic subscriptions for Université de Montréal libraries, representing around 80% of the acquisitions budget. US $24,047: the price of a yearly subscription to the journal Brain Research. 7,000: the number of open access scholarly journals. 80%: the proportion of journals worldwide allowing authors to deposit their articles in an open access repository or on their personal websites. 19 million: the number of pages visited since the creation of the Érudit platform in 1998, whose content is 90% open access. 375,000: the number of theses and dissertations downloaded from Papyrus, the institutional repository of Université de Montréal, in 2011.
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    This is a very interesting article from the University of Montreal about open access journals, the cost journals, profits of major journal publishers and what the impact of all this is on post-secondary institutions.
Barbara Schindelka

The Professor as Mass Communicator? | Academic Matters - 1 views

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    "The expectation for researchers to have a presence beyond academia coincides with another shift that is making social impact now possible, for many researchers, and this is the rise of social media. These new, virtual environments are not just characterized by popular, personalized platforms like Facebook and Twitter, although I will come to these. Rather, social media encompasses the entire architecture of the scholarly Web today, best known as Web 2.0, which is a new way of organizing digital media content. While computing transformed scholarship in many ways before the rise of social media platforms, the average end-user experience, even for a novice, has altered considerably within just the last five years."
Heather Ross

Efficacy of Open Textbook Adoption on Learning Performance and Course Withdrawal Rates:... - 0 views

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    "Open-source textbooks have been developed primarily in response to the rising costs of commercial materials. Concerns over quality and effects on learning have prompted numerous studies in this area. Based on the meta-analytic findings here, there are no meaningful differences in learning efficacy between students using open textbooks and students using commercial textbooks. However, students in courses with open textbooks appear to be less likely to withdraw. There are several limitations in research on open textbooks that indicate future research should consider K-12 students, the needs of students outside of the United States and Canada, and the potential moderating factors of student characteristics."
Heather Ross

Converting Student's History Essays into Wikipedia Articles - John Stewart - 0 views

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    "Moving from a disposable research essay to a Wikipedia essay carries several benefits: Students gain a sense of confidence in their knowledge by contributing to a source that they know and use. Students trade the audience of one instructor for a broad readership (one of the students this semester revised an article on Japan's military Unit 731 that got more than 70,000 views in just December) Students improve their digital literacy through a better understanding of Wikis a medium. Students learn about source authority, especially the increasingly common semi-anonymous and anonymous web sources which so often fill their bibliographies. Instructors trade a stack of homogenous research papers for a variety of formatted essays. Essays are subject to open-review on the web."
Heather Ross

Guidebook to Research on Open Educational Resources Adoption - 0 views

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    Produced by the Open Education Group for the Open Textbook Network. Good guide for those interested in getting started on research related to OER.
Wenona Partridge

Centre for Research on the Wider Benefits of Learning - 0 views

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    The Centre for Research on the Wider Benefits of Learning, based in London, "investigates the benefits that learning brings to the individual and to society as a whole."
Heather Ross

Harvard University says it can't afford journal publishers' prices | Science | The Guar... - 0 views

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    "Exasperated by rising subscription costs charged by academic publishers, Harvard University has encouraged its faculty members to make their research freely available through open access journals and to resign from publications that keep articles behind paywalls."
Wenona Partridge

Creativity and the Research University - Changing Higher Education - 0 views

  • I see that universities can contribute to the creativity of three constituencies: students - how do we educate students so that we unleash their creative capacity? faculty - how do we organize our institution and reward faculty so that they can reach their creative potential? regional - what role can a university play in helping a region to become a center of economic growth in creative technologies?
Stan Yu

Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning - 0 views

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    Journal devoted to Community Service-Learning Research. PDFs of articles can be downloaded for free and full journals can be purchased from this site
Heather Ross

8 Studies Show iPads in the Classroom Improve Education - 0 views

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    The research studies noted in the article include a mix of K-12 and higher education. "There have been many interesting studies done about iPads in the classroom and the effects on both students and teachers. I've pulled together a list of various study results regarding iPads in the classroom below. Check out just how much of an influence studies show iPads in the classroom are having on education."
Tereigh Ewert-Bauer

Inclusive Teaching Resources and Strategies - 0 views

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    "In any discipline or field, a key goal as well as challenge is supporting the learning of all students despite their many differences. Through programs, consultations, and resources, CRLT supports teachers in creating learning environments where students of all identities and backgrounds can flourish." This website provides an endless supply of fresh resources regarding inclusivity, with one page of invaluable articles or links, leading on to more and more. Spending a little or a lot of time on this site will vastly increase your understanding of inclusive teaching, provide you with tools and ideas to implement, and provide you with some of the research that substantiates all that has been included on the site.
Heather Ross

Digital Learners in Higher Education: Generation is Not the Issue - 0 views

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    "Generation is often used to explain and rationalize the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in higher education. However, a comprehensive review of the research and popular literature on the topic and an empirical study at one postsecondary institution in Canada suggest there are no meaningful generational differences in how learners say they use ICTs or their perceived behavioural characteristics."
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