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glen gatin

digital digs: Building Scholarly Networks - 0 views

  • We might like to think that information-sharing is intrinsic to academic work, especially academic work that is publicly funded. However we also place many restrictions on publishing, like peer review, and I imagine there are still academics who try to keep their work secret until it is ready for any number of semi-paranoid reasons. I'm not going to say we shouldn't do these things, but we need to recognize that the discipline works by controlling the production and distribution of disciplinary knowledge.
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    See Skirky Coasean floor- the cost of dissemintation of academic research has dropped to near zero. When institutions insist on exhorbitant journal access fees they doom themselves to irrelevance. Attention economy needs eyeballs and the eyeballs glaze over at the idea of paying $180.00 for a PDF report on online education in Canada, a publicly funded research project.(295 for the hard copy)
glen gatin

Pioneering research shows 'Google Generation' is a myth - 0 views

  • are now becoming the norm for all age-groups
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    Digital immigrants might not take easy access quite so much for granted. If I am doing research and have to actually make a trip to the library, jump on my bike and go across town. I consider it a time drain. Although when I was living a rural community with no academic library, I longed for the easy access of just going across town. Now that there is Google Scholar and Google books I wonder why I have to log in to my institutions web site, and go through 6 different hoops to get to the data base and article of interest. It is getting better all the time though. My library is setting up Google Scholar to get direct access to some databases.
glen gatin

A Threat So Big, Academics Try Collaboration - New York Times - 0 views

  • aimed at getting students and professors from different disciplines to collaborate in studying the environmental ramifications of production and consumption.
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      This is important because we are now seeing collaboration across disciplines -- something that has rarely happened in the history of science, but has been found to spark true creativity.
    • glen gatin
       
      The threat may actually be to the academic industrial complex as much as to evnironment studies.
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    Fascinating article about cross-disciplinary collaboration. This is becoming something that is possible through new means of using the Internet.
Steve Madsen

Values Exchange Selected Oz schools - 0 views

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    Values Exchange. Students able to discuss current interests. Has formal approach to discussions.
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    2008: software written in New Zealand. A pilot program where students respond to case studies which involve values. Responses are quantitatively collated. Good potential for further research for more academic inclined students.
glen gatin

YouTube University gets failing grade from prof, students - 0 views

  • while the students were faced with having their classroom ideas judged not simply by their peers, but by a far wider audience.
  • diluted her role as an expert, reducing her to just another figure with limited video skills. That also limited her ability to act as an authority figure, one that plays an essential role in keeping the discussion from degenerating into chaos.
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    fantastic experiment not sure if the title of the article is justified in the text. Biggest complaint seems to be loss of control and authority. hmmm "Students having their classroom ideas judged not simply by their peers but by a far wider audience" and that is a bad thing because...?
glen gatin

Cognitive Edge - 0 views

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    followed the link through to the University of Chicago project on Wisdom. http://wisdomresearch.org/ I hope the Lord has mercy on my soul. I certainly won't insist on justice:>)
glen gatin

MiT5: Collaboration and Collective Intelligence - 0 views

    • glen gatin
       
      Two essential components of online social networks? Community and content. Where is your content stored in meatspace?
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    Scholz talking about the two things of value in a online social network. Community and content. What amalog BSP are impacted by the move to online life? KYD?
Vicki Davis

From Age of Empires to Zork: Using Games in the Classroom | Academic Commons - 0 views

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    Article about using games in the classroom to teach.
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    Very nice article about using Games in the Classroom from Todd Bryant. (Hat tip to Jo McLeay's plurk about this one.)
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